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The specific types of video players and their requirements can be very technical and confusing. If you need help, talk to your webmaster, your IT department, or a Section expert at your agency. Video players on federal government sites must support three requirements to be considered compliant:. As of June , the current standards for Section , as written by the U.

Access Board , do not give specific requirements for compliant media players. Two good guides to follow are the Software Applications and Operating Systems guidelines and the Web-based application standards. Some of the commonly requested features include:. Visit the Described and Captioned Media Project website for a complete list of updated features. Video sharing sites, such as YouTube, in addition to the wide distribution of Adobe Flash video playing component on personal computing devices, have made embedded players very popular.

The accessibility of embedded players varies. While many embedded players support Timed Text and other caption formats, few also support audio descriptions or have accessible player controls.

Stand-alone video players are separate programs that operate outside the Web browser. Stand-alone players have several advantages concerning accessibility:. Have feedback or questions?

For tables, right click on the table and choose Table Properties. The 5th tab is for ALT Text. When you run the accessibility checker, this error should be ignored.

The checker can only identify that the image does not have a tag. It does not know that it is a non-informational image. You may be able to do this using the Group option or using a third party tool such as SnagIt. Ready for Release. Black and white is always a good choice. This is not usually checked via Microsoft applications. It requires a visual check.

Always run the accessibility checker when you are finished with your document to see if any issues are identified, then remediate those items prior to publishing your document. From the menu that appears on the right side of your document, select the Full Check panel under the Accessibility section.

When the pop-up window appears, click Start Checking. Your results will appear on the left side of your document. Don't assume that your document is good; always run the checker to confirm.

After the Accessibility Checker inspects your content, it reports the inspection results. Because the Full Check feature can't distinguish between essential and nonessential content types, some issues it reports don't affect readability.

You should review all issues to determine which ones require correction. The report displays one of the following statuses for each rule check:. To fix a failed check after running Full Check, right-click the item in the Accessibility Checker panel and choose one of the following options from the context menu:.

If the document appears to contain text, but doesn't contain fonts, it could be an image-only PDF file. Or to fix this rule check manually, use OCR to recognize text in scanned images:. Make sure that the reading order displayed coincides with the logical reading order of the document. To do so, click the Reading Order icon in the far-left column, then start clicking through the items listed in the Order column to ensure they flow correctly. If they do not, return to the source document i.

Enter the document title in the Description dialog box deselect Leave As Is, if necessary. Or, fix the title manually:. In the Structure Elements dialog box, select the elements that you want to use as bookmarks and click OK. You can also access the Structure Elements dialog box by clicking the Options menu on the Bookmark tab and selecting the New Bookmarks From Structure command. When this check fails, it's possible that the document contains content that isn't accessible to people who are color-blind.

To fix this issue, make sure that the document's content adheres to the guidelines outlined in WCAG section 1.

Or, include a recommendation that the PDF viewer use high-contrast colors:. Make sure that all content in the document is either included in the Tags tree or marked as an artifact. If the source document is not available, then do one of the following to fix this rule check:. Do one of the following:. Alternate text can't hide an annotation. If an annotation is nested under a parent element with alternate text, then screen readers don't see it.

PDF File Checklist. For more detailed tutorials on how to create compliant documents view videos below. Recommended that you use Microsoft for the best experience:. This video describes how to use the Accessibility Checker and the accessibility features in Microsoft Topics include converting scanned documents to OCR, setting the tab order, setting table headers, determining whether a document has been tagged or not, tagging an untagged document, adding ALT text to images, changing the reading order, and marking paragraphs as text.

Making Accessible PDFs. PDF Accessibility Overview. A basic review of PDF documents and an overview of accessibility features. Note: This replaces the FY — January release. If you have downloaded the previous file prior to June 30, you will need to download it again. This corrects the missing I5A, Non-ischemic myocardial injury non-traumatic code for the addenda. Also a new version of the FY Conversion table has been added.

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