Alright guys, Welcome to the premiere episode of WCAG Wednesdays where each week we walk through the success criteria for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. In today’s episode I thought we’d start at the beginning. Before we dive into the…
Merging tables that break across multiple pages
STOP STRUGGLING!! Learn how to merge tables that have repeat headings that span across multiple pages. In this video I will walk you though all the steps you need to create an accessible PDF that contains tables that bridge more…
Remediation with NVDA
Testing with a screen reader like #NVDA is an important part of #remediation. Understanding how a document is voiced helps ensure the best user experience possible. Watch this video as I walk through how I use NVDA to test for…
Understanding the PDF Tags Tree
Alright guys. It’s Dax Castro and once again I am here to help you tackle the tags tree and lead you down the road of remediation. Our topic today… Understanding the PDF Tags Tree. We are going to…
7 Accessibility Remediation Shortcuts guaranteed to speed up your workflow.
Learn these 7 tips to speed up your accessibility remediation. When you are trying to work through thousands of pages, these tips will make you a more efficient. PDF Accessibility is a skill that must be practiced. Take these tips…
Top 5 ways to add accessibility to your Word doc PDFs
Starting down the road of accessibility can be daunting. Understanding the tags tree, alt-text, read order, table headings and content panels can be overwhelming at first. If your role is remediation specialist there as a level of expectation that requires…
The two most important keys to PDF Accessibility Remediation
Having remediated thousands of pages of PDF documents and reviewing even more for accessibility, I can tell you that these two keys are the most overlooked methods of “fixing” your PDF.
Advanced Table Remediation
What do you do when someone emails you a PDF full of tables with rows and rows of merge cells and says “Make this an accessible PDF, please?” Ask for the source of course. But what do you do when…
How much is too much PDF accessibility remediation?
The need for clean tag structures and green check marks keeps me up at night. Seriously. But, it wasn’t until I took a JAWS screen reader class lead by a great blind guy named Z, that the answer to the…
How many H1 tags should my document have?
For those of you in the accessibility world who struggle with the “Only one H1 in a document” theory, I feel your pain. If you are new to accessibility, then you have undoubtedly come across the two schools of thought…