903 Accessible PDFs

How do I find the PDFs on my website?

  1. Log in to Omni CMS by navigating to your site in a web browser, and clicking on the UVU logo at the bottom right corner of the page:
    Log in icon at on UVU website
  2. Navigate to the pages view by clicking on the "Content" menu item and choosing "Pages":
    OU Campus toolbar options
  3. From the pages view, find the "docs" folder of your site. You may need to use the breadcrumb to navigate up a level to the main level of your site:
    Select docs folder in Omni CMS
  4. The PDFs and other document files for your site are in the "docs" folder. Check sub-folders for PDFs as well:
    List of documents in the docs folder

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How do I check the PDFs for accessibility?

This is quick guide on how to check your PDF in Adobe Acrobat to see if it’s accessible. If you don’t have Acrobat installed you’ll need to install it. It’s available to all UVU employees, you can find the link to Acrobat inside my.uvu.edu

  1. Open the PDF in Acrobat.
  2. Add the Accessibility tool. Go to the “Tools” tab, and then look for the purple accessibility icon, and select “Add”. This will add the Accessibility tool to the toolbar on the right side of the page:
    Accessibility tool in Adobe Acrobat
  3. Now click on “open”:
    Open PDF in accessibility tool
    or click on the newly added Accessibility tool icon in the toolbar on the right side of the page:
    Accessibility tool in Adobe Acrobat menu
  4. Click on “Accessibility Check” and the “Accessibility Checker Options” window will open up. Select “Start Checking”.
    Accessibility check options in Adobe Acrobat
  5. The results of the check will show up on the left side of the screen:
    Accessibility check results
  6. If it passes you will see two warnings still, one for Logical Reading Order and one for Color Contrast, as these are things that can only be checked manually.
    Accessibility check warnings

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The PDF didn’t pass. Now what?