Virtual Training for the Association of Ohio Health Commissioners
Training provided via Zoom by WebAIM.
October 21-22: Creating Accessible Electronic Documents. Each major section will include instruction, demonstration, and practice. We will use Office 365 and Acrobat DC Professional. Word and PowerPoint
- Overview
Principles of and motivations for document accessibility
Overview of WCAG 2
Overview of legal requirements
Office "Check Accessibility" feature
Combining automated and manual evaluation
User experience and assistive technologies
Creating accessible Word documents and PowerPoint presentations
- Headings in Word
Create headings
Change the appearance of headings
Images and alternative text
Decorative images
Complex images
Image placement
Tables
(Tables in Excel upon request)
Links
Lists
Columns
Language
Structure and reading order in PowerPoint
Slide layouts
Reading order
Slide Master
- Low vision and contrast
Color blindness and color use
Auditory disabilities and multimedia
Cognitive and learning disabilities
PDF and Acrobat (2 hours)
Note: Participants must have Acrobat Pro (not just Acrobat Reader)
PDF Accessibility Principles
Accessibility from different source documents
PDF "content" vs. PDF "tags"
· Basic PDF repair in Acrobat
- Setup
- Check accessibility
- Reading Order tool
- Hide decorative images and content
- Table editor
- Verify and repair
Web Accessibility
- Overview of WCAG 2
- Preparing for ADA updates. ADA Title II updates
- Section 504 Part 84 for HHS
- Scope and effective dates
- Title II Exceptions
- Important content that is not exempt
- ADA roadmap
- Screen reader users
- How screen readers work
- Headings
- Regions and landmarks (brief overview)
- Page title
- Testing page structure with WAVE
- Lists
- Links
- Tables
- Document language
- Alternative text
- WCAG requirements and exceptions
- WCAG label and name
- Complex images
- Forms overview
- Low Vision
- Zooming/Enlarging content
- Testing browser Zoom
- Contrast
- Color use
- Testing color and contrast
- Auditory disabilities and media accessibility
- Captions and transcripts for multimedia
- Audio description
- Accessible screen sharing
- Photosensitive epilepsy
- Cognitive and learning disabilities
- Understandable content
- Legible text
- Animating and time-sensitive content
- Motor disabilities
- Mouse/touchscreen accessibility
- Keyboard accessibility
- Creating Accessible Google Docs and Slides
- Headings in Docs
- Creating accessible content in Office
- Images and alternative text
- Issues with alternative text support
- Tables
- Issues with table support
- Links
- Lists
- Columns
- Language
- Layouts and reading order in PowerPoint
- PDF creation in Docs
- Issues with PDF creation in Slides