Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act requires that all digital files provided by public entities must be accessible at the WCAG 2.1 AA level. This page provides resources on remediating digital files that may have accessibility barriers.
Remediating PDF Files
Adobe Acrobat Pro Tutorials
How to tag PDFs in Adobe Acrobat Pro: This short tutorial video demonstrates the steps for tagging a pdf that is inaccessible. This is often the first step in making a pdf file accessible as each item on the page needs to be labeled by type.
Add complex alt text with Gem Alt Text generator: This tutorial shows you how to add alternate text to a figure in a pdf file using Adobe Acrobat Pro. To generate the alternate text, you can use a tool like the Gem Alt Text generator.
PDF Accessibility Tags Training: In this video, we will focus on using the autotag feature in Acrobat, the Reading Order Touchup tool to correct mistagged content, and the content and tags panels to retag content and add new tags to the document structure.
Microsoft Word Tutorials
Create accessible tables in Microsoft Word: This short tutorial shows you how to remediate tables in Microsoft Word to make them accessible, such as designating a header row, merging split cells, and splitting merged cells.