Document Accessibility

  • This one-hour webinar will review the steps to make your Excel documents more accessible and we’ll share accessible design best practices.

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  • Creative professionals have limited time but need the most up-to-date training. This 3-hour webinar will teach designers how to create accessible InDesign content and review the steps to make a PDF.

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  • If you have already have InDesign templates that you are using, or you would like to begin creating templates for such things as meeting minutes, event posters, annual reports, application forms, etc. – this is the webinar for you! In this one-hour webinar, participants will learn how to make well-designed and accessible templates, as well as how to maximize the built-in features of InDesign to do this in a quick and streamlined way.

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  • In this one-hour webinar, we will address accessibility issues and best practices for creating PowerPoint presentations. Various tools will be demonstrated in PowerPoint to create an accessible presentation, including appropriate formatting, ordered lists, recommended slide layouts, well-designed tables, hyperlinks and graphics with alternative text, along with some tips to manage content for screen reading devices.

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  • This 2-hour webinar will take you step by step through the process and you will learn: • How to prepare simple text content for accessibility • How to prepare graphical content for accessibility • Why navigation is important in a document • What is reading order and why is it important

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  • In this 4-hour training we cover more advanced in-depth topics of working and reformatting content so it can become accessible, followed up by using Acrobat Professional for testing and tag review. This is Level 2 of our Accessible InDesign training.

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  • How can you know what colours and contrast are appropriate? How can you ensure that people with vision disabilities can read your documents? This webinar will review a variety of colour contrast checkers, including those available online and in most mainstream applications such as Microsoft, InDesign and PDFs.

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  • While properly constructed tags are essential for an accessible PDF, tags alone are not enough. Some accessibility checkers review only tags while others also check hidden aspects of the document

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  • You know how to apply accessible default styles in Word, but do you know how to make your own custom styles with accessible tags? In this 1-hour webinar, you will learn how to include corporate branding into a document which has “H” tags and how to move styles between documents to improve efficiency when making and sharing accessible content in Word.

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  • Complex tables that include merged and split cells are a common accessibility concern. Making these tables more accessible in the source document can be a time-consuming challenge. When no other workaround is available, there are a few things you can do inside the PDF to make complex tables more accessible for screen reading applications.

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  • In this 60-minute course, get tips on the best and most accessible design choices – from choosing colours and fonts, to ensuring documents are accessible to assistive technology users.

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  • More Word users are creating accessible content and using styles more efficiently. Now is a good time for anyone using InDesign to apply the “Import Options” settings when placing Word text in an InDesign file. In this 40-minute webinar we review time saving practices of using Table Styles and Object Styles when placing content.

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  • This 40-minute webinar is about what and how to break old print layout habits when trying to create an accessible document. For InDesign documents to become accessible PDFs, it is imperative that you avoid laying out content with the intention of it just being printed and avoid some of those true and tried keyboard shortcuts! This webinar is sure to amaze and resolve common issues you may be having with PDF remediation.

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  • This 2.5 hour training webinar is designed to review best layout practices and techniques to format content for an accessible form that has first been designed in using Adobe InDesign and then made into an accessible PDF.

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  • Review the best layout practices and techniques to format content for an accessible form that has first been designed in Microsoft Word and made into an accessible PDF document. A very practical 2-hour training course!

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  • Participants in this 45-minute webinar will learn how accessibility effects document creation and how to confirm a document’s compliance. By the end of this session, you will understand what you need to do differently in the document creation process and get suggestions for how to save time and money in the production stages.

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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 50-minute webinar common Checkpoint errors will be reviewed and resolved, along with how to use the Checker features.

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  • For users of screen reading applications and people with visual impairments, text alternatives (alt text) convey the purpose or function of an image so as to provide an equivalent user experience in a document or on a website. In this 45-minute virtual training, participants will learn how and when to apply alternative text ; test their knowledge through in-class exercises; and get an opportunity to ask questions of our accessibility expert.

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