[Athen] Adobe InDesign/PDF Accessibility

[Ron]

That is true, though the accessibility will be dependent on the nature of
the content and the reading system being used to consume it.

I have played with this a bit, and once you get a good workflow going it
does work. Though EPUB3 accessibility is a work in progress.

Ron Stewart

On Monday, January 5, 2015, George Kerscher <kerscher at montana.com> wrote:


> Hi,

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> InDesign now supports an export to EPUB 3. One is fixed layout and the

> other is reflowable. The reflowable EPUB is much more accessible. I suggest

> exploring that route.

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> Best

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> George

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> *Subject:* [Athen] Adobe InDesign/PDF Accessibility

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> A constituent on campus wonders about resources for using Adobe InDesign

> to create source files that can be exported to accessible PDF.  She has

> done some self-study at tv.adobe.com, but feels that the process

> described there is too cumbersome and time-consuming.

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> Has anyone encountered any InDesign resources that can help the casual

> document designer better understand and implement accessibility?

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> Best,

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> Todd

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> T.M. Weissenberger

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> Web Accessibility Coordinator

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> University of Iowa

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> todd-weissenberger at uiowa.edu

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> 319-384-3323

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