InDesign Accessibility Techniques
0.5 Days | Price: $349
This advanced course is appropriate for experienced InDesign users who would like to learn techniques to ensure InDesign documents are universally accessible before the document is converted to a PDF file.
Learn how to apply accessibility techniques within InDesign to create documents which require minimal remediation once converted to PDF. In this course, lessons 1 & 2 will be covered in depth, whereas, lesson 3 will be a quick overview of how to fix small accessibility issues in a PDF. (For more in depth training on PDF remediation, enroll in the 4-hour Making Acrobat PDF's accessible and compliant course).
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1 – Accessibility Overview
- What does Accessibility Mean?
- Review compliance guideline websites
- Best Practices
- Errors as opposed to warnings
- File names, styles and formatting
2 – InDesign and Accessibility
- Setting up the InDesign accessibility workspace
- Creating styles with accessibility in mind
- Adding tags and mapping styles to tags
- Reading order and reading order tools
- Using the Articles panel
- Adding image alt tags
- Best Practices
- Applying anchors
- Threading text
- Adding bookmarks
- Adding metadata
- PDF export options
3 – Acrobat Accessibility
- Running an Accessibility Report in Acrobat
- Understanding the report
- Quick fixes
- NOTE: Lesson 3 will be a quick overview of how to fix small accessibility issues in a PDF. For more in depth training on PDF remediation, enroll in the 4-hour Making Acrobat PDF’s accessible and compliant course.
