Presented at 2:15pm in Standley II Lab on Wednesday, November 20, 2019.
#30876Speaker(s)
- Bevi Chagnon, Designer, Senior Accessibility Trainer, PubCom.com
Session Details
- Length of Session: 2-hr
- Format: Lab
- Expertise Level: Beginner
- Type of session: General Conference
Summary
Discover what’s new in Adobe InDesign 2020. This short session focuses on the best construction techniques and methods to create better, more accurately-tagged PDFs that require little remediation. Ways to control the reading order, tags, Alt-text, and other accessibility requirements. Also covers how to review the exported PDF for compliance.
Abstract
Discover what’s new in Adobe InDesign 2020. Learn better ways to create compliant, accessible PDFs.
This short session focuses on the best construction techniques and methods to create better, more accurately-tagged PDFs that require little remediation.
Topics: — Ways to control the reading order and tags. — Adding Alt-text. — Anchoring text boxes, sidebars, graphics into the reading order. — How to review the exported PDF for compliance.
We'll focus on improving the InDesign-to-PDF workflow, making it faster and easier to achieve a fully compliant PDF.
Keypoints
- Make accessible PDFs from InDesign layouts.
- Minimize the need to remediate PDFs from InDesign
- Improve campus communications.
Disability Areas
Cognitive/Learning, Mobility, Vision
Topic Areas
Accessible Educational Materials, Other, Uncategorized
Speaker Bio(s)
Bevi Chagnon
Bevi Chagnon has been active in the standards community for 25 years, and currently is a US Delegate to the ISO committees for PDF and PDF/UA. With a long career in publishing, she’s an expert for Adobe InDesign, Acrobat, MS Office, and accessibility. She’s a professional educator, award-winning designer, and former faculty member at Washington DC-area colleges/universities. Bevi is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and a contributor on many forums, including the Adobe Community Forums where she is an invited Community Expert.