Auditing PDFs for 508 at Scale:  DrupalCon Portland 2022
Channel: Drupal Association
Date: 2022-04-30

Speakers: Lauren Maffeo 

You've read the Statement of Work for your next client project: A full content audit of their website to prepare for the client's first migration to Drupal. This client has over 50k PDFs on their website, and few (if any) are 508-compliant. Your job is to audit all PDFs for 508 compliance to support a new, accessible Drupal website.

Scared? I was when it happened to me. This session shares tips I learned to audit PDFs at scale in service of accessibility. We'll cover:

- Key differences to audit accessibility for PDFs vs. websites
- Tools to audit for 508 compliance at scale
- When to use web scraping vs. web crawling
- How to assess metadata, and the value of tags
- A roadmap to prepare non-compliant PDFs for migration to Drupal