Piece of Cake: Transferring Web Accessibility Skills to PDF

Baking a layer cake is a familiar metaphor in web design and accessibility. Since cake is delicious and emotionally powerful, it’s become prolific (e.g., “baking in layers of web accessibility testing”, “baking in accessibility by design”, “layer-cake user scanning patterns”). This talk uses the layer cake metaphor to describe how to transfer your existing web accessibility testing skills to audit a PDF’s accessibility. Although we’ll use different testing tools, validators from Acrobat Pro and Dual Labs, the test types will be familiar to Axe DevTools users (full scan, user flow analysis, and guided tests). Together we’ll determine if a PDF-cake is delicious or crumbles.