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To create a truly accessible document, one that is PDF/UA compliant, it must pass PAC (PDF Accessibility Checker), a free downloadable accessibility checker. In this webinar common Checkpoint errors will be reviewed and resolved, along with how to use the Checker features. We will also profile the most recent, newly released version of PAC – 3.1.

This one-hour webinar will review the most commonly used accessibility checkers currently available when creating accessible PDF documents, including Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat Professional and the online PDF Accessibility Checker (PAC 3.1).

Do you wonder how accessible your organization's social media posts are? Would you like to make your tweets, Instagram stories and Facebook posts inclusive and accessible to people with disabilities? In this webinar we'll cover some general guidelines for creating accessible social media posts, review common pitfalls, and discuss both accessibility features available on different platforms and some workarounds you could use when built in accessibility features are not available. 

Do you want to create reports, marketing material, and everyday documents that are accessible? Get tips on the best and most accessible design choices - from choosing colours and fonts, to ensuring documents are accessible to assistive technology users. You will learn what is required to create accessible materials that work for a wider range of users and see examples of accessible and inaccessible design choices.

In this hands-on, virtual training we cover in depth topics of making accessible content in InDesign, followed up by using Acrobat Professional. This course covers the core InDesign concepts of text formatting, graphics and working with navigational and digital device reflow features to include all users who require an accessible PDF.

This hands-on, virtual training session is designed to clearly explain how to create an accessible document using Microsoft Word. It will demonstrate converting documents to PDF format and examine the required structure for assistive technologies.

In this virtual, hands-on training you will learn how to make accessible PDFs, including complex content and handling PDFs when no source document is available.

Many people have difficulty understanding what is meant by ‘website accessibility’ and how this is achieved. This webinar will give you an understanding of how people with various disabilities access your website and how websites can be made accessible.

Including alternative text in digital documents, websites, and mobile apps is a requirement of the Website Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and is essential to making your website accessible. In this webinar we will review how and when to apply alternative text.

This course covers a collection of key concepts and tasks of laying out and fixing content and some clever workarounds to ensure a better end user experience with assistive technologies (ATs). This is Level 2 of our Accessible InDesign training.