Adobe Acrobat PDF Accessibility Resources

If you want to provide scanned pages of a book chapter or journal article, we strongly recommend that you provide your students with a digitized version of the book instead of a scan. Electronic Course Reserves are available and can be shared with students via Canvas and FSU Libraries. For assistance, please contact the FSU Libraries.

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Overview Information

PDF Accessibility overview
This resources offers an overview of the PDF file format and characteristics of accessible PDFs (scroll down on page for specific recommendations).

Tutorials

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 with slide presentations, spreadsheets, and web pages in 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)
- 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
- Scanning Tips
- Troubleshoot Scanner Issues
- Recognize text in scanned documents
  If you wish to use a scanned document, text recognition is key to making your PDF file accessible. Without text recognition, assitive technology cannot adequately read your file.
- Correct OCR text in PDFs
Turn Paper Documents into Searchable PDFs
Rotate, move, delete, and renumber PDF pages

For more information, refer to the Acrobat User Guide.

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