Accessible Document Design – 4 Part Fee-based Series

Presenter: *Karen McCall*

Dates: Feb. 2, 9, 16 and 23

Times: 11 Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern

This four part series takes a look at how to optimize Word, PowerPoint, 
Excel, PDF and PDF forms for accessibility and usability.


    Week 1 – Word

What tools do you have in Word to optimize your documents for 
accessibility and usability...and where do you find them! What are the 
improvements to accessibility of Word documents from the perspective of 
someone using adaptive technology?


    Week 2 – PowerPoint and Excel

What tools do you have to optimize PowerPoint documents to be accessible 
and more usable? Topics include working with the slide master, colour 
contrast and PowerPoint template design. In looking at Excel documents, 
we will explore techniques on locati95ng and navigating worksheets.


    Week 3 – PDF Documents

This week provides an overview of the basics of optimizing PDF documents 
for accessibility and usability. We will take a look at the Tags or 
structure elements and how to use them. This is not a session where we 
will be remediating Tags, but we will discuss the correct Tag for the 
piece of content on a page.


    Week 4 – Accessible PDF Form Design

How many of us have had training on how to layout a form on so that it 
can be made into a digital form in any format, but specifically PDF? Do 
any of us actually look at the forms we are trying to make accessible? 
This week we’ll take a look at some of the techniques to optimize your 
PDF forms to be accessible and usable beginning with your form template. 
(This is not a week where we will add form controls or work in Adobe 
acrobat, this is a session on how to make your own form templates more 
accessible and usable.)

EASI Annual Members use the next link for the member passworded page:

http://easi.cc/member/index.htm

Non-members use the next link to register and pay $195 for the 4-part 
series and select the EASI Webinar conference 4-part series starting in 
February:

https://www.secure.servsite.com/easi/enrollment/enrollment_pal.shtml

You can also go to the EASI page and select webinars:

http://easi.cc




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