Dr Faezeh Seyedarabi amp Rocio Calvo Digital Accessibility in Higher and Further Education Conference 7 th April 2016 Making Accessible PDF documents in Virtual Environments PDF guidelines for UK lectures in Higher Education ID: 767213
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Dr Faezeh Seyedarabi & Rocio Calvo Digital Accessibility in Higher and Further Education Conference – 7th April 2016 Making Accessible PDF documents in Virtual Environments: PDF guidelines for UK lectures in Higher Education
The design and development of teaching slides is a requirement for lectures in Higher Education (HE)Teaching slides are often shared with students in PDF formats instead of Word or Excel documents Moodle an example of Virtual Learning Environment
PDF are used in Virtual environments and should be made accessible to all users.According to the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) working group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), there are different disabilities and barriers that could affect students’ individual learning, when using web or digital documentsIt is essential for teachers to develop digital documents that are accessible to all students regardless of their learning abilities, e.g. Moodle. Use of PDF documents in Virtual Learning Environments
4 How to create an accessible content? How to tag content? How to create accessible PDF documents? Making Accessible PDF documents in Virtual Environments
Example slide
Example slide – Some accessible information is considered
Dr Faezeh Seyedarabi & Rocio Calvo Digital Accessibility in Higher and Further Education Conference – 7th April 2016 E.g. Making Accessible PDF documents in Virtual Environments: PDF guidelines for UK lectures in Higher Education
What do I have to do?
Make your original documents accessible
Write for your target audienceDon’t make long paragraphs Use headings to divide informationUse bullet points to break up textUse active voiceAvoid multiple negatives How do I make them accessible?: Pay attention to your content information (I)
Include graphics when possible: Avoid graphic of textDo not use colours to represent informationProvide alternative text for this imagesUnderstandable when using black and white How do I make them accessible?: Pay attention to your content information ( II)
How do I make them accessible?: Pay attention to your content information (III)
Tag headings Tag lists (Numbered and bullet points)Do not use spaces to modify the layout Identify document languageHow do I make them accessible?: Tag the content
Include structure tags for accessibility Document propertiesBookmarks using headings …Convert to PDFYour documents
AbilityNet Producing accessible materials for print and onlineCreating accessible Word documentsWebAIM . Microsoft Word documentsW3C PDF Techniques for WCAG 2.0 Gov UK. Creating accessible PDFs WebAIM . PDF Accessibility Next Steps