Text-based Resources

Overview Information

• PDF Accessibility overview
  This resource provides an overview of the PDF file format and the characteristics of accessible PDFs (scroll down the page for specific recommendations).

Tutorials

• Edit scanned documents
• Creating Accessible PDFs
  • Workflow for creating accessible PDFs
  • Create a tagged PDF from a webpage
  • Creating a tagged PDF from an authoring application (e.g., MS Word)
  • About tags in combined PDFs
    It is possible to combine Microsoft Word files, slide presentations, spreadsheets, and web pages into a single PDF file. This resource provides information on how to do this and what to be aware of.
  • About tools for creating accessible PDF forms & Workflow for creating accessible PDF forms.
• Verifying that your PDF is accessible
• Resolving reading order issues: If you are unable to correct the problem with the Reading Order tool, then use the Content Panel.
  • Reading Order tool overview (Acrobat Pro)
    • Check and correct reading order
    • Edit tags with the Reading Order tool
    • Edit tags for figures and tables
    • Remove or replace document structure tags
  • Edit document structure with the Content and Tags panels (Acrobat Pro)
    • Correct reflow problems with the Content panel
    • About the Tags panel
    • How to view tags in the Tags panel
    • How to edit tags with the Tags panel
    • How to add alternative text and supplementary information to tags
      (adding alt text for hyperlinks, figures, and abbreviated terms) 
    • Create a new child tag
    • Correct table tags with the Tags panel
    • List of standard tag types for PDF files

• Create PDFs from Microsoft Office Files
• Scanning a paper document to PDF
  • Recognize text in scanned documents
    Note: If you wish to use a scanned document, text recognition is key to making your PDF file accessible. Without text recognition, assistive technology cannot adequately read your file.
  • Enhance scanned documents
• Turn Paper Documents into Searchable PDFs
• Modify PDF pages
  • Rotate pages
  • Extract pages
  • Move or copy pages
  • Delete pages
  • Replace pages
  • Renumber pages

For more information, refer to the Acrobat User Guide.

ODL Resources

Making Content Accessible is a repository of accessibility resources made by the Office of Digital Learning team.