23-25 August 2005
Dundee, Scotland
Creating Adobe PDF Documents Optimised for Accessibility and Usability**Unfortunately the organiser can no longer attend and has therefore had to cancel this workshop, however the following workshop is being run in its place: How to create accessible documents in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). Organisor: Karen McCall, M.Ed., Karlen Communications, Adaptive Technology Consulting and Training Practice, Canada Time: Tuesday 23rd August - Morning This workshop is for anyone who wants or needs to create more accessible and usable PDF documents using Adobe Acrobat Professional 7. Learn what structural elements in native applications can make the conversion to tagged PDF easier with less repair work! What if you have legacy documents and don't have the original file? What if the legacy document is a scanned image? How can you create tagged PDF documents from these legacy documents? How can you use Microsoft Office applications to create more accessible and usable PDF documents? What's happened to PDF eBooks? Can they be tagged? At the very core of PDF accessibility and usability, what does tagging a document mean? If you work with PDF documents as a reader or author, you'll want to attend this workshop! This workshop will also provide you with information on how to optimize the usability of Adobe Reader 7. Learn how to adjust the text colour and background colour of PDF documents to alleviate visual fatigue. Use the Read Out Loud tool to have your PDF documents read to you. Modify the colour of form fields in PDF documents so that you can find them more easily. Use the OCR [Optical Character Recognition] tool on scanned PDF documents, and access captioning or video description for multimedia content in PDF documents that contain these accessibility features. This workshop is an overview that will answer most of your PDF questions! Further information is available at: http://www.iprimus.ca/~martha/online-workshops.htm |
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