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Live virtual classes

UCOP Creating Accessible Documents 1: MS Office
Feb. 19, 1 – 2:30 p.m.
Digital accessibility ensures that users with disabilities can easily access and engage with digital content. In this course, you will learn the principles of digital accessibility, how to generate accessible Microsoft Office documents and how to export these to PDF. This is the first course in the series and a prerequisite for UCOP Creating Accessible Documents 2: PDFs.

UCOP Creating Accessible Documents 2: PDFs
Jan. 28, 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. or March 25, 1 – 2:30 p.m.
Building off the Creating Accessible Documents 1: MS Office training, this session offers a deep dive into using Adobe Acrobat Pro to manipulate, tag and test PDF documents for accessibility. We will cover tagging documents from scratch, common accessibility errors, tables and building accessible PDF forms. To fully participate in this class, you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Pro installed (not just Acrobat Reader). Note: Creating Accessible Documents 1: MS Office training is a prerequisite for this class.

LinkedIn Learning resource: Creating Accessible PDFs (course)

Recommended by the Learning and Development team, this course covers:

• Why accessibility is important
• What features an accessible PDF should include
• How to make an existing PDF file accessible using Adobe Acrobat
• How to create new accessible PDFs in Word, PowerPoint or InDesign
• Navigating the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
• Testing PDF accessibility with a screen reader
• Third-party tools to speed up the PDF remediation process. He also walks you through three workflows for creating accessible PDFs: one in

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