37th Annual CSUN Assistive Technology Conference Has Concluded

Bridging the Accessibility Gaps from MS Word to PDF

Date & Time

Tuesday, March 15, 2022 - 1:20 PM PST

Location

Platinum 6 (LIVESTREAM)

Description

Most people expect that you can export an accessible document from MS Word without any issue. While this may be true for very simple documents, the reality is for most documents exporting a compliant PDF from MS Word requires extra work or "dumbing down" the content to pass accessibility compliance rules. This session reviews common limitations and shortcomings to exporting accessible documents from Microsoft Word. Then we will demonstrate the effect these issues have on people using assistive technology. We will review several solutions to fixing these issues inside Adobe Acrobat.

Audience

Higher Education
Information & Communications Technology
K-12 Education
Media & Publishing
Marketing

Audience Level

Beginning

Session Summary (Abstract)

This session reviews common limitations and shortcomings of exporting accessible documents from Microsoft Word and how to easily overcome them using good MS Word document hygiene and several remediation techniques in Adobe Acrobat.

Session Type

General Track

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