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Description

Faculty are course designers, constantly creating and curating instructional materials. College staff create and author documents to be shared campus-wide. This micro-course will help faculty and staff determine if their PDF files are accessible, and provide potential resources and strategies to delivering accessible electronic documents.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Determine the best format/strategy for delivering content, whether it should remain as a PDF, in a Word Doc, or a Canvas page.
  • Run the Accessibility Checker and interpret its results to determine if a PDF is accessible.
  • Given a PDF, identify the specific accessibility errors.
  • Explain how the Tags Panel is a logical structure tree of a PDF that indicates the reading sequence of the document.
  • Given an inaccessible PDF, identify the specific accessibility errors.
  • Describe the PDF remediation workflow given a PDF that has no tags.

 

Frequently Asked Questions

How long will the micro-courses be available?

The content will be available indefinitely.

 

How long will it take to go through the course material?

This micro-course is self-paced and includes videos, quizzes, and activities. This micro-course is a self-paced course. There will be no facilitators. Plan to commit at least an hour for each module. Each module may vary considerably in length and complexity. Participants who are familiar with PDF may progress faster. Unfortunately, it is difficult to predict individual time commitment.

 

What background do I need?

This course assumes prior knowledge of basic accessibility principles; however, there are opportunities for review.  PDF familiarity is not needed. It is helpful to be familiar with Canvas. If you need additional Canvas support, please see the various Canvas Guides and Canvas Helpline. 

 

Do I need to buy a textbook/course materials?

Download Paciello Colour Contrast Analyzer. 

All lecture and most activities are published in this Canvas micro-course. However, you will need access to Adobe Acrobat PDF. 

 

 

 

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