Establishing a PDF Accessibility Program in a Complex Org

Date & Time

Wednesday, March 20, 2024 - 1:20 PM PDT  

Location

Grand GH  

Description

Implementing a PDF accessibility program across a large, complex, integrated healthcare organization poses many challenges. Because of our decentralized distributed publishing model, 300K employees, including 24K physicians, can publish PDFs on our flagship website kp.org. We started implementing a program two years ago to scale accessibility across all stakeholders to improve the accessibility of our documents for our members.

We’ll share how we began assessing our situation by employing a tool that scans our publicly facing web pages and tests each PDF against WCAG 2.1 AA. We discovered a very high rate of untagged PDFs and developed a strategy for improving them. We’ll discuss how we built a tool and training library that provides access to various testing and remediation tools, and courses available to all employees. After creating awareness and training authors, we began a phased enforcement program where all PDFs are screened before moving to production. We’ll examine how success depends on successfully partnering with stakeholders such as authors, document engineers, content strategists, and vendors. So far, our efforts have reduced untagged PDFs on kp.org by 93%.

We are excited to share our challenges and successes with others who are either beginning their PDF program or have pre-existing challenges with established programs.

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Audience

• Information & Communications Technology
• Healthcare & Rehabilitation
• Media & Publishing
• Marketing
• Administration & Business Support

Audience Level

Intermediate  

Session Summary (Abstract)

This session will show how to create and evolve a PDF accessibility program in a complex organization. Topics include setting realistic goals, testing and remediation tools, education programs, enforcement measures, and measuring success.  

Primary Topic

Healthcare & Rehabilitation  

Secondary Topics

• Blind/Low Vision
• Captions & Transcription
• Evaluation & Remediation
• Information & Communications Technology (ICT)

 

Session Type

General Track  

Presenter

• Chris Nishioka
  Kaiser Permanente

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