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* Graphic designers
* Content writers
* Web developers
* Web site managers
* Creative directors

You may work for an agency, a corporate firm, a local council, or anyone that is keen on driving accessibility forwards in their business.

What will I achieve?

On successful completion of this course, participants will:

* Have an understanding of the tagging tools available in Adobe Acrobat
* Know how to begin making Adobe PDF forms accessible
* Be able to set the read order of tags
* Add descriptive text for forms, tables, links and image such as graphs
* Comfortable converting word documents to PDF and identifying issues and correcting tagging and markup
* Be able to Enable settings for text access for screen reader devices

Course content

This one day course provides delegates with practical examples, comprehensive notes, guidelines and sources of reference.

The course can be tailored to meet the needs of your team and your organisation, but typical course content includes:

* Overview of Accessibility in Adobe Acrobat
* Making Adobe PDF forms accessible
* Setting the read order of tags in the document
* Adding descriptive text for forms, tables, links and image such as graphs
* Converting word documents to PDF and identifying issues and correcting tagging and markup
* Enabling settings for text access for screen reader devices
* Making documents pass the Accessibility checker
* Tagging scanned documents

Pre-requisites

You should be familiar with using Adobe Acrobat and have a clear understanding of working with HTML tags and knowledge of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Web Standards.

We have trained

Vodafone, Macmillan, Midlands Coop, Save The Children, Help the Aged, AbstractMRM, ESRC, Woking Borough Council, Hastings Borough Council, Pernod Ricard, Hermes, English Heritage, Princes Trust, KPMG, BDO Stoy Hayward, Great Ormond Street Hospital, British Library, CIPD, National Trust, Waitrose, Next, MBNA, AXA PPP Healthcare, The Stationery Office, RBS Corporate, Cambridge University Press, Stroud and Swindon, Bibby Financial Services, Thames Valley University, The Equality and Human Rights Commission and more.

Need some more information?

We are ready to answer your questions right now, so please contact us by telephone on +44 (0) 207 168 7526 or drop us a quick email info@spotlessinteractive.com and we will do our best to help you with any questions you might have.
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In a climate where every sector is battling to communicate with and target a diverse and wide-ranging population, with equally diverse specific needs and requirements, it is crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each individual, and not just the masses.

'Designing For All' is a highly successful training course with a strong track record, written and delivered to help you achieve exactly this. It enables you to both find out more about different user groups and audiences and their specific needs, and to get the chance to take part in practical workshops to test out what works - and what doesn't.

The course - led by Katie Grant of Raincharm, former publications manager for the Disability Rights Commission and one of the UK's leading specialists in this vital field - covers web, print and electronic document production including how to write and produce Easy Read documents.

Quotes from previous delegates:
"The course covered a wide range of subjects very well in a limited time"
"This is a very well constructed, structured and informative course"

Specifically, this course will help you:

• assess current design and content of information - please bring examples along of your current information for us to assess in our 'document clinic'
• follow an inclusive model to improve accessibility across your communications mix
• assess specific audience needs, identifying ways to communicate in an accessible way
• see how different formats/styles work for different audiences
• keep abreast of the latest developments in accessible formats and assistive technologies
• carry on learning, with an inclusive takeaway guide and checklist to designing and producing accessible information.
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