Location: Virtual

Portable Document Formats (PDFs) are one of the most frequently used types of documents in education and one of the most complicated to make accessible. This session is designed to help participants get started with remediating inaccessible PDFs and building accessible PDFs going forward. They’ll experience how to use the automated tools Adobe provides to evaluate and modify PDFs to be more accessible with just a few clicks!

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

• Run Adobe’s Accessibility Checker.
• Interpret accessibility reports from Adobe.
• Fix commonly found issues through Adobe tools such as ‘Make Accessible’ and ‘Scan & OCR’.
• Navigate Adobe’s provided explanations for more complex issues.

Presenter

Jack Garrard is the Web Accessibility Specialist for University of Maryland College Park, with 9 years of experience with digital accessibility in higher education and 4 years at the federal level. He specializes in music braille, PDF remediation, and web testing, with a passion for training others on how to create accessible materials.

CE Contact Hours (Maryland public libraries) = Yes

Zoom captioning will be available. If you require an ASL interpreter or other accommodation for a program, please contact nini.beegan@maryland.gov with as much notice as possible, but no later than three weeks before the program date.

This project is supported in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library Services and Technology Act administered by the Maryland State Library Agency.