Workshops

In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn about the background and theory of accessibility and how it effects document creation; necessary changes to an organization's current workflow and process; and how to design documents for those with vision, motor and cognitive impairments. Various tools will be used in Microsoft Word to establish accessibility and then PDF documents will be reviewed, and the content enhanced and edited, to ensure they pass the Adobe Acrobat Accessibility Checker.

This hands-on workshop is a follow-up to the “How to make Accessible Word Documents" workshop (held the day before this workshop) and has been designed with the approach of addressing more complicated content.

The task of creating an accessible document goes farther than just correctly formatting the text in your original file. With different content styles inside a document, such as complicated tables, lists and diagrams - it can leave you frustrated and unsure of what to do.

This workshop will provide you with an overview of the five AODA Standards and will focus on the how this information can be delivered in an interactive and fun training session to your staff and volunteers. The AODA Train-the-Trainer workshop qualifies as mandated training and will equip you to meet your organization's AODA training requirements.