The 1194.22(m).1 section relates to applet, plugin, or application boilerplate text present before file uploads of specific types. 

This includes content such as Adobe PDFs, Microsoft PowerPoint, etc.

Footer Link

Websites can meet this requirement by placing a link in the footer of the page linking to a single page highlighting the accessible readers for files on the website.

For a link to the accessible documents disclosure, please see the Accessibility Disclosures for Attached Document Files.

File Types

Appropriate text for declaring accessible readers for file types:

Adobe PDF

Consider using text prior to the PDF link, such as the following:

• File downloads below contain PDF files. Please note that some more-recent browsers have the ability to download and view PDFs. To download and view PDF files, please download a PDF reader such as Adobe Acrobat Reader. 

Microsoft PowerPoint

• File downloads below contain Microsoft PowerPoint files, which require an application to open. Please note that Microsoft PowerPoint is a paid product, however, free alternatives such as Apache OpenOffice exist to view the file.

Some document files attached to Georgia Tech website pages may be in a format that requires an additional browser extension or a special application on your computer or device to be able to open them.  The following disclosures describe how to utilize the most commonly found types of files in use at Georgia Tech:

Adobe PDF

Some more-recent web browsers have the ability to download and view PDFs.  If your browser does not have this support, you will need a PDF reader on your computer or device such as Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Files

These document files are produced by the Microsoft Office application.  If you have Microsoft Office installed on your computer, then your web browser should be able to open these files automatically.  If you do not have Microsoft Office, there are other alternatives including the Apple office applications (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) found on most Macintosh computers, or the free Apache OpenOffice or LibreOffice.

This one hour presentation was provided via Adobe Connect and incorporates a demo of JAWS screen reader accessing a Word document (Demo 1 which begins at timestamp 8:11).

For those who may be new to Adobe Connect:

• Closed captioning is provided in the Captioning Pod
• Adobe Connect Accessibility Features
• The Events Index (visually located on left side of Adobe Connect screen) contains a list of topics covered during the webinar
  • Each topic can be expanded to access direct hyperlinks to that specific section

Courtesy of AccessGA.

Checklists

The checklists from HHS.gov are available via the USG Accessibility Tutorial, under Training, Intermediate/Advanced and Creating New Content.

Please see the Web Accessibility Group (WAG) presentation from June 2017 on accessible documents.

Presenter

There's a recording of the meeting as well as a link to the presenter's slides. The presenter's website has more resources, including information on a book about Accessible PDFs that the presenter wrote.