Standards Compliance

Professional Services

Document Security

PDF Accessibility and Section 508

Duration

1 day. There will be a 30 minute break for lunch and two 10-minute breaks in the morning and afternoon periods.

Audience

This course is intended for webmasters and content authors who want to ensure their PDF documents are Section 508 compliant. The instructor will present verification and remediation techniques using Acrobat Professional and CommonLook. The training includes a hands-on portion to ensure trainees gain a good understanding of the key accessibility techniques.

No prior knowledge of accessibility or section 508 is required.

Description

The instructor will provide an overview of PDF, Section 508, the tags and content views and Acrobat and CommonLook techniques. In the hands-on portion, the trainees will go through a number of PDF documents and use the Acrobat and CommonLook techniques to test them for Section 508 compliant and to remediate compliance issues.

The course will cover the following topics:

• PDF Overview
• Section 508 Overview
• Applying Section 508 to PDF
• Tag and Content Views
• Acrobat Techniques:
  • Accessibility Checker (Section 508)
  • Touch Up Reading Order
  • Table Editor
  • Tags and Content Trees
• CommonLook Techniques:
  • Section 508 Checker
  • Logical Structure Editor
  • Verify and Remediate
• Hands-on remediation of documents