Hands-on Adobe PDF Accessibility Workshop with Greg Pisocky
Online Registration Form
(Registration is non-refundable)
You learn about:
- Accessibility features of Adobe PDF and Acrobat Reader
- Creating accessible documents from Microsoft Office
- Creating accessible PDF forms
- Improving the accessibility of scanned and legacy PDF files
The workshop will help instructors, web developers and administrators understand the accessibility features of Adobe PDF and Acrobat Reader. The workshop will be lead by Greg Pisocky of Adobe and participants will leave with the skills they need to integrate accessibility into the web publishing practices and instructional materials they use to teach people about PDF publishing. The workshops are a hands-on experience to help participants understand the details of accessible PDF authoring.
Locations and Times of the Workshops
- Time: 9:30am - 3:30pm
- Location 1: April 3rd: Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois (20 seats)
- Location 2: April 4th: Lincoln Land Community College, Springfield, Illinois (24 seats)
- Location 3: April 5th: (full, waiting list only) Harper Community College, Palatine, Illinois (14 seats)
Agenda
Starts at 9:30am
Accessibility Features of PDF
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Styling and zooming PDF content
- Tagged PDF
Break
Part 2: Creating Accessible PDF with Microsoft Word
- Configuring Acrobat for including tagged PDF
- Document security issues and screen readers
- Office techniques to include structure in PDF documents
Lunch Break on your own
Part 3: Accessible PDF Forms
- Adding form controls to PDF files
- Adding labels to form controls
- Changing reading order of controls
Break
Part 4: Scanned and Legacy PDF Accessibility
- Creating a tagged PDF file
- Editing tagged information
- Strutural tags
Ends at 3:30pm
Presentor
Greg Pisocky is a Business Development Manager in Adobe Systems' Corporate Product Management Group. As an accessibility specialist, he advises Adobe's customers on techniques for developing accessible content for those with disabilities. He also assists government agencies in using Adobe tools to meet Section 508 requirements. He participates on a number of accessibility standards working groups: the W3Cs Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) and AIIM's PDF Universal Access PDF/UA working group. Greg has been with Adobe for over 13 years and holds a BS in Technical Writing and Editing from Carnegie-Mellon University.
Local Contacts
- April 3rd: Michael Whitney (Witny23@siu.edu), Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
- April 4th: Rebecca Fauvie (rfauvie@cait.org), Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois
- April 5th: Chris Dobson (cdobson@harpercollege.edu), Harper Community College, Palatine, Illinois