There has been a great deal of concern about accessibility recently. Even Microsoft has focused on accessibility in many of their more recent application updates. However, how do you as an individual ensure your PDF documents are accessible without having … Read the rest
How Does It Look on a Mobile Device?
In the past, we have run Google Analytics which told us that the majority of the web sessions on the OCPS portal were coming from desktop computers. In fact the number was as high as 95% in recent months. However, … Read the rest
Creating Your Accessible PDF from Word
Now that you have a Word Document that is accessible, how can you create a PDF that you can distribute to others outside of OCPS.
Since the 2007 version of Word, you have had an option to change the file … Read the rest
Hyperlinks in Documents
As with links on a web page, links in a document must have alt-text. However, there is a major ‘gotcha’ which I’ll explain a little latter in this post. Let’s begin though by looking at what are some of the … Read the rest
Accessibility of Images in PDFs
Accessibility of Images in PDFs follows essentially the same rules as images on web pages. There are three basic types of images:
- Decoration
- Example of something
- Actual content
All three types of images must have alt-text associated with them. However, … Read the rest
Image Alt-Text
This is a reminder that all images must have Alt-Text that either:
- Explains what is going on in the picture/image, what is the purpose of the image, what is the message that you are trying to get across.
- Images that