Transcript of, Creating an Accessible PDF from a Word Document Lesson 1: Introduction, by Austin ISD.

>> INSTRUCTOR: Hello and welcome to Creating an Accessible PDF from a Word Document.

Creating an accessible document ensures that they can be read
by a variety of users including people who use assisted technology, such as screen readers, screen magnification and text to speech software.

They are also easier to access on a variety of devices such as smart phones e-readers, and tablets due to the fact that the text reflows to fit the screen.

PDF files are not typically created in Adobe Acrobat, but rather they are created
in other programs such as Word or Power Point and then converted to PDF.

Therefore, the accessibility of the PDF depends on the accessibility of the original document.

Before continuing, I'd like to define a few terms that we're gonna be using during the exercise.

For instance, Acrobat is the name of the software application that we'll be using during the process of generating and modifying PDF's. 

PDF stands for Portable Document Format and is a typical type of digital document.

Adobe is the company that makes Acrobat, Acrobat Pro, and Acrobat Reader.

Tags are created in Acrobat and are what screen readers use to read a document.

Word of note: Mac users be warned.

Microsoft Office on the Mac does not support the exporting of accessible PDFs when using Acrobat X.

It only works using Acrobat Creative Cloud versions.

Mac users will need to remediate the PDF file using Acrobat.

All examples in the following videos will be using the following
software packages: on your Austin IST laptop or desktop, we'll be using Microsoft Office 2016 and Acrobat Pro X.

If you do not have either of these packages installed on your computer please contact our help desk at four one four eight three two four.