This tutorial introduces the users to the fundamental concepts on how to create interactive and accessible PDFs, as well as provides guidance on the tools to be used, best practices, and mistakes to avoid. The tutorial includes quizzes for self-assessment

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Technological University Dublin ARROW@TU Dublin Open Educational Resources Applied Social Computing Network 2019 Interactive and Accessible PDFs Quality Blended Learning Consortium Follow this and additional works at: https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ascnetoer  Part of the Adult and Continuing Education Commons, Computer Sciences Commons, Educational Methods Commons, and the Instructional Media Design Commons Recommended Citation Quality Blended Learning Consortium, "Interactive and Accessible PDFs" (2019). Open Educational Resources. 1. https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ascnetoer/1 This Multimedia is brought to you for free and open access by the Applied Social Computing Network at ARROW@TU Dublin. It has been accepted for inclusion in Open Educational Resources by an authorized administrator of ARROW@TU Dublin. For more information, please contact arrow.admin@tudublin.ie, aisling.coyne@tudublin.ie, gerard.connolly@tudublin.ie. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License Funder: EACEA Gain the “know-how”QUALITY BLENDED LEARNINGINTERACTIVE ANDACCESSIBLE PDFS• Know how to create interactive PDFs• Know how to create accessible PDFsINTERACTIVE and ACCESSIBLE PDFs                                                                                              Quality Blended LearningLEARNING OBJECTIVESQUALITY BLENDED LEARNINGCREATING INTERACTIVEPDFSINTERACTIVE and ACCESSIBLE PDFs                                                                                              Quality Blended LearningI T TI   I L  Fs                                                                                              lity le e  Le r i gHOW TO PREPAREDesign with InDesign! Design your pages in InDesign as you would normally do. Your document need to be (almost) finished before you start adding interactivity into it.To interact or not to interact?Decide which kind of interactivity you would like to add. Instructional design can help you on where it is useful to include interactive objects in order to not overdo it with them! Identify the needs!Prepare yourself for engaging interactive content! Identify your target audience and their needs, use marketing psychology to trigger their curiosity, use your creativity to make your content fun, combine data with visual content, invite your students to participate and last and most importantly, don’t forget to personalize your content.INTERACTIVE and ACCESSIBLE PDFs                                                                                              Quality Blended LearningGet ready to create an interactive PDF:Facilitator box:Read the Golden Principles of High-Quality Instructional Design to find out more! HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN INTERACTIVE PDFINTERACTIVE and ACCESSIBLE PDFs                                                                                              Quality Blended Learning1 2Once you are ready to go, all you have to do is follow the next 3 steps to create your own interactive PDF!STEP 1INTERACTIVE and ACCESSIBLE PDFs                                                                                              Quality Blended LearningOpen your InDesign file and select the Interactive for PDF Workspace. All panels are displayed on the right side of the screenSTEP 2INTERACTIVE and ACCESSIBLE PDFs                                                                                              Quality Blended LearningAdd HyperlinksYou can add hyperlinks by clicking the relevant panel and then selecting any element from your InDesign document.Those hyperlinks allow viewers to jump from location to anotherwithin the same document, or to other documents or websites.In the Hyperlinks panel, click the ‘Create New Hyperlink button’ and add your hyperlink URL/file/email/page/destination/text anchor.STEP 3INTERACTIVE and ACCESSIBLE PDFs                                                                                              Quality Blended LearningAdd BookmarksYou can also add bookmarks to pages within the document by clicking on the ‘Create New Bookmark’ button in the Bookmarks panel.OTHER RESOURCESINTERACTIVE and ACCESSIBLE PDFs                                                                                              Quality Blended LearningAdobe Learn & SupportPractice with sample files how add a splash of interactivity to make your PDFs more engagingYouTubeThere are several tutorials on YouTube that can help you learning how to create interactive PDFsTip:Add a keyword that describe the purpose of your PDF (e.g. resume, flyer, etc.) 1. Interactivity is exciting! But don’t overdo it!2. You have plenty of options! Remember to keep consistency throughout your content.INTERACTIVE and ACCESSIBLE PDFs                                                                                              Quality Blended LearningWHAT TO AVOIDThere are many mistakes and pitfalls that are quite common for teachers. Be aware of them and differentiate yourself from the others!EVALUATE YOURSELF!INTERACTIVE and ACCESSIBLE PDFs                                                                                              Quality Blended LearningYou can start creating your content before you explicitly define the needs of your audience.Click on the correct answerA. TrueB. FalseINTERACTIVE and ACCESSIBLE PDFs                                                                                              Quality Blended LearningAnswer A is incorrect!You should always prepare yourself for engaging interactive content! Identify your target audience and their needs, use marketing psychology to trigger their curiosity, use your creativity to make your content fun, combine data with visual content, invite your students to participate and last and most importantly, don’t forget to personalize your content.EVALUATE YOURSELF!INTERACTIVE and ACCESSIBLE PDFs                                                                                              Quality Blended LearningAnswer B is correct!Identifying the needs of your audience is a key step in creating effective content! EVALUATE YOURSELF!QUALITY BLENDED LEARNINGCREATING ACCESSIBLEPDFSINTERACTIVE and ACCESSIBLE PDFs                                                                                              Quality Blended LearningI T TI   I L  Fs                                                                                              lity le e  Le r i gHOW TO PREPAREINTERACTIVE and ACCESSIBLE PDFs                                                                                              Quality Blended LearningGet ready to create an accessible PDF:Use more tags! PDFs must be properly tagged, with tags that are generated during the conversion from Word to PDF.Be an architect! Define the structure!The structure must be clear and easy to follow. Headings, table of contents, links and bookmarks can keep your structural elements properly formatted.Be alternative! Visual content that reveals useful information should have text alternatives.Watch your language! The language of the material should be specified in advance.Fast and secure! The security settings of the document shall include users of assistive technologies. HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN ACCESSIBLE PDFINTERACTIVE and ACCESSIBLE PDFs                                                                                              Quality Blended Learning1 2Once you are ready to go, all you have to do is follow the next 3 steps to create your PDF accessible!INTERACTIVE and ACCESSIBLE PDFs                                                                                              Quality Blended LearningSelect the files you want to apply the predefined actionsClick start and follow the instructions to complete the Make Accessible actionActivate the Make Accessible action of Adobe Pro Tool to see all the guidelines you need1 2 3OTHER RESOURCESINTERACTIVE and ACCESSIBLE PDFs                                                                                              Quality Blended LearningAdobe Learn & Support:• Make PDFs accessible (Acrobat Pro)• Check accessibility of PDFs (Acrobat Pro)• Fix accessibility issues (Acrobat Pro)• Accessibility issuesYouTubeThere are several tutorials on YouTube that can help you learning how to create interactive PDFs1. Do not use images just to decorate your content. All material included in your document should convey useful information.2. Avoid repeating headers and footers.3. Be careful of the colours! The background shall make a contrast with the foreground.INTERACTIVE and ACCESSIBLE PDFs                                                                                              Quality Blended LearningWHAT TO AVOIDThere are many mistakes and pitfalls that are quite common for teachers. Be aware of them and differentiate yourself from the others!EVALUATE YOURSELF!INTERACTIVE and ACCESSIBLE PDFs                                                                                              Quality Blended LearningWhich of these is a good piece of advice when creating accessible PDFs?Click on the correct answerA. Readers love images! You can use as many as you wantB. Headers and footers shall be repeated in order for the readers to remember themC. The background should have a contrasting colour with the foregroundINTERACTIVE and ACCESSIBLE PDFs                                                                                              Quality Blended LearningAnswer A is incorrect!Screen reader users include people who are blind, have low vision, or have cognitive disabilities.Avoid using non essential and non informative images such as decorative media. Use only relevant images and always add an alternative text.EVALUATE YOURSELF!INTERACTIVE and ACCESSIBLE PDFs                                                                                              Quality Blended LearningAnswer B is incorrect!Some screen readers will automatically read header and footer information. Others require the user to navigate to the header or footer and manually “ask” for them to be read. Others leave headers and footers out completely.While it’s important to mark header and footer information somewhere else in the text since headers and footers usually include essential information such as contacts, it can be frustrating for an impaired user to automatically hear this information every time they click on a new page.EVALUATE YOURSELF!INTERACTIVE and ACCESSIBLE PDFs                                                                                              Quality Blended LearningThe correct answer is C!The background shall make a contrast with the foreground. This helps people with visibility problems to easily read your content. EVALUATE YOURSELF!THANK YOU!This slides were created by the Quality Blended Learning ConsortiumDISCLAIMER. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.Please keep this slide for attribution.

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