Uploading an PDF document to Cascade CMS is done by using the red plus sign for adding content.
We recommend most of your content be posted as pages in the CMS, not as PDFs. See our policy.
You must check your pdf for accessibility before uploading and it must pass with no errors. Use the accessbility checker in Adobe Acrobat Pro or you can check files 5MB or less using PAVE ( ). Also, Information about creating accessible PDFs can be found on the WebAIM site @
In Adobe Acrobat Pro, you should run the document through the Accessibility Checker tool. Make sure that cloud-based auto-tagging for accessibility is checked in Preferences.
Do not use or link to PDFs unless absolutely necessary. If visitors are meant to read content on screen, it should be posted as HTML. If visitors are meant to print the content in order to read it, then post as PDF, if necessary.
Do not use spaces, capital letters, or other special characters in the name of the PDF file.
Documents uploaded to the CMS can be linked from a page via the WYSIWYG editor by clicking on the Insert/edit link button (looks like a chain) and navigating to the document file.