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Title
Advanced Accessible PDFs
Category
general
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86c4448723d643cfbcf9b5265ff98dd0
Source URL
https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/advanced-accessible-pdfs
Parent URL
https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/training
Crawl Time
2026-03-23T03:06:09+00:00
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Advanced Accessible PDFs

Source: https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/advanced-accessible-pdfs Parent: https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/training

Course Overview

Course Description

\ Accessible PDF files are files that can be read by a screen reader by users who are visually impaired. While you can’t just push a button to make a PDF accessible, with the tools available in Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign, you can make sure that any PDF you create is a valid accessible PDF file. Prioritizing accessibility doesn't mean you can't leverage the powerful tools the PDF format offers, though, and in this course, instructor Chad Chelius outlines techniques that can help you manage complex layouts and add advanced features like PDF forms, PDF/UA compliance, and complex tables, while keeping PDFs accessible and compliant. Chad shows you how to add and adjust PDF tags to optimize the screen-reading experience, make scanned PDFs accessible, examine and repair tables, remediate existing files to meet PDF/UA standards, and more. He also covers advanced issues that come up with Acrobat, InDesign, and Word.\

Please contact digitalaccessibility@harvard.edu with any questions or accommodation requests.

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