Author Archives: Dean Brusnighan
Use Full Check in Adobe Acrobat Pro When Checking Accessibility
It is important to make PDF documents and forms accessible to individuals with disabilities. To help, Adobe Acrobat Professional has two separate accessibility checks that it can perform. They are called the Quick Check and the Full Check. One of them should be avoided. The Quick Check for accessibility in essence is only checking to [...]
Use Descriptive Link Text: Don’t “Click Here”
Imagine you have a web browser that allows you, with one click, to present all the hypertext links on a page in a list. Now, imagine you use the browser to create a list on a page that has 47 links. What do you do if 35 of them say the same thing – “Click [...]
Captions on Handheld Devices in Sports Venues
Is it possible to provide captions directly to handheld devices in sports venues? More importantly, do users find it effective? At sporting events, the goal is to caption the spoken words of the public address (PA) announcer, both during the game and during breaks in the action. Purdue’s Department of Intercollegiate Athletics provided us with [...]
Using Software Remote to Create Accessible PDFs
Question: How do I use the information I learned during the training when I don’t have the most current version of Adobe Acrobat Pro? The workflow doesn’t match what I see in my older version. Answer: As a Purdue employee, you have two options. 1. If you would prefer to use Adobe Acrobat Pro X [...]
‘Creating Accessible PDF’ Training Offered in January
The Office of the Vice President for Ethics and Compliance, in collaboration with the Office of Institutional Equity and the Web Accessibility Committee, is again sponsoring training on creating accessible PDFs this January. Terrill Thompson, a nationally recognized Web-accessibility trainer from the University of Washington, will lead the hands-on training. The sessions he provided at Purdue [...]
New Resources for Creating Accessible PDFs
Are you looking for additional resources to learn how to create or modify a PDF so it can be read by individuals with disabilities using assistive technology? New resources are available for Purdue University faculty and staff as books and recorded training sessions. Books The Office of the Vice President for Ethics and Compliance has [...]
Training Available to Create Accessible PDFs
During trainings held earlier this year, Purdue University’s Web Accessibility Committee received many requests for training to make PDFs accessible. We listened, and now such training is available. Multiple sessions of hands-on training are scheduled during the week of October 10 – 14. To register for one of the courses, go to: http://www.itap.purdue.edu/training/courselisting.cfm?ID=139. Courses are [...]
Adding Captions/Subtitles to Your Video and Audio in PowerPoint
Tips for Using the Subtitling Text Add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Microsoft recently made STAMP (Subtitling Text Add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint 2010) available as a free public beta. STAMP makes it possible to add closed captions to video and audio files in your PowerPoint 2010 presentations. You can create captions yourself within PowerPoint, or import [...]
Using WAVE for Web Accessibility Evaluation
I hope you took the opportunity to attend a recent webinar presented by Jared Smith, Associate Director of WebAIM. It was a great introduction to the free WAVE web accessibility evaluation tool (http://wave.webaim.org/) created by WebAIM. The webinar recording and the presentation slide set is available at: http://easi.cc/archive/wave2011/resources.htm One thing that sets WAVE apart from [...]
Free Webinar on PDF Accessibility
During recent face-to-face training sessions on Accessible Web Design, we received many questions about making PDFs accessible. That’s why I’m pleased to report there is a free webinar coming up on PDF Accessibility. It’s scheduled for Tuesday, March 8, 2:00 – 3:30 PM. The webinar’s title is “Quick Checks for PDF Accessibility”. Session description from [...]