Live: The Impact of Digital Document Accessibility

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The intent of this session is to help you understand the challenges end-users encounter when trying to make use of non-compliant PDF files.

We will cover three main topics in this session: We will cover three main topics in this session:

• An understanding of how difficult it is for end-users to make use of non-compliant PDF documents due to the lack of structure and reading order. There are many visual cues that sighted users have inherently learned to utilize over the years when reading a document that provides context and understanding about various parts of a document. I will illustrate some of these and help you understand how these allow us to perceive structure and logical reading order.

• the impact a fully compliant document has to users of assistive technologies. As a continuation of the first topic, this portion will help you understand how users of assistive technologies can have the same experience as sighted users when the digital document is fully compliant.

• the fundamental areas that are required to create fully compliant digital documents. Now that we have a basic understanding of what an accessible document is, we will walk through the main areas that are required to create these accessible PDF files.