Stories from my Life as a Technologist
Once again, there are numerous programs that can edit PDFs. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a free (or very cheap) one that allows you to edit even the basic pieces I talk about below. Would love to hear if anyone has recommendations.
Anyway, that means I will discuss what needs to be done but not how to do it in a specific program (they should already have documentation on how). Continue reading “Accessible Format Production Part 3: Making Accessible PDF”
As promised, the first post on the steps to creating accessible formats. Continue reading “Accessible Format Production: Part 1 & 2 Scanning and Creating Text-Readable PDF”
I have been meaning to post a series of post on how to create accessible formats, so here’s the overview. Continue reading “Accessible Format Production: Overview on Creating Accessible Formats”
I started drafting something similar to this post for our website and decided to make it a blog post first. People ask me all the time about accessible formats (aka alternate formats) and the differences between the various types. Continue reading “A Rundown on Accessible (Alternate) Formats”
This was originally presented as an online workshop for the Center for Instructional Development & Distance Education, University of Pittsburgh on February 5, 2015. If you’re familiar with my presentations, everything up to and including the introduction to universal design is quite similar to my past presentations (especially the most recent one). However, after that, this presentation focuses solely on creating content, both online (such as using WordPress) and using software (such as Microsoft Word). As you can imagine, this presentation was geared towards non-technical users, going into much more detail on content guidelines than in any of my other presentations, and for UPitt faculty and staff. Continue reading “Presentation: Making Accessible Content Easy and Part of Your Work”