{"id":36701,"date":"2026-06-23T13:43:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/?p=36701"},"modified":"2026-06-23T13:43:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:43:33","slug":"digital-accessibility-tip-pdf-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/2026\/06\/23\/digital-accessibility-tip-pdf-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Accessibility Tip: PDF Accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PDFs are a universal document format that many use for consistent file transfer between all types of systems. However, they require significant work to make accessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We recommend avoiding the use of PDFs, if possible. If you are required to use a PDF, learn how to use the accessibility checker in Acrobat with MedTech&#8217;s five-minute tutorial to learn how to remediate your file.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-cta wsu-spacing-after--xsmall\" >\n\t<a \t\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/tech.medicine.wsu.edu\/technology\/digital-accessibility\/pdf\/\"\t\n\t\tclass=\"wsu-button  wsu-button--size-small\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\tView Tutorial\t\t\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Do I need to make my PDFs accessible?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You are required to provide an accessible version of whatever documents you\u2019re making available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Digital Accessibility Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Digital accessibility is everyone\u2019s responsibility. Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.medicine.wsu.edu\/technology\/digital-accessibility\/digital-accessibility-basics\/\">MedTech Digital Accessibility Basics<\/a> page to get started and stay tuned as the team develops more resources. For additional information, visit the WSU <a href=\"https:\/\/wsu.edu\/digital-accessibility\/\">Digital Accessibility<\/a> hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft PowerPoint\u2019s built-in accessibility checker helps you make your documents accessible. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25158,"featured_media":31554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wsuwp_accessibility_report":null},"categories":[13],"tags":[33],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36703,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36701\/revisions\/36703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36701"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=36701"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=36701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}