Grossmont Union High School District

Make your PDF accessible

When posting documents to the web, Google Docs are arguably the most accessible to persons with disabilities. Additionally, Google docs are more readily translatable into other languages.

The most common document type, however, is still PDF.

sample PDF text that is selectable is also readable by most screen readers.

PDFs created from scans too often are not accessible. If you can click-drag and highlight text within a PDF, then it probably is already accessible, as in this case.

What to do when your PDFs are NOT compliant

Open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat PRO. Don't have PRO? See the Director of Instructional Technology.

Open Tools > Text Recognition.

Accept the defaults and perform the conversion on the current document or select an entire folder of documents.

Save.

The resulting files should pass the previous test.

1100 Murray Drive (PO Box 1043)

El Cajon, CA 92020 (La Mesa CA 91944)

(619) 644-8000

If you require the use of telecommunication relay services, dial 7-1-1 to be connected to a specially trained communications assistant.

Grossmont Union High School District programs and activities shall be free from discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying based on age, gender, sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, nationality, ethnic group identification, ethnicity, marital or parental status, physical or mental disability, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation or the perception of one or more of such characteristics. (GUHSD Board Policy 5145.3)
Additional Title IX non-discrimination information
4119.26 BP Employee/Student Interaction Policy
Additional non-discrimination and related policies

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