PDF Accessibility Fundamentals | Oct 27 | 9 AM PT
Understand what’s happening beneath the surface of a PDF and why a document that looks accessible may still create barriers for people using assistive technology. This session explores PDF structure, tags, common accessibility failures, and how to determine whether a PDF can be successfully remediated.
Learning Objectives
- Explain how PDFs are structured and distinguish between a document’s visual appearance and its underlying accessibility structure.
- Describe the purpose of PDF tags and how they communicate headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, images, and other content.
- Explain how assistive technologies use PDF structure to navigate, interpret, and present content to users.
- Recognize common PDF accessibility problems that can make apparently simple documents difficult or impossible to use with assistive technology.
- Evaluate a PDF’s underlying structure to identify issues that may require accessibility remediation.
- Assess whether a PDF can be successfully remediated or whether returning to the source document and recreating the PDF is the more effective approach.
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