Accessibility in Adobe InDesign
Description
This course is designed, not for expert users of InDesign, but rather for ALL users that are producing InDesign projects and want to ensure that the project will be “Accessible for All”.
What is accessibility and what laws are in existence. Attendees will review the state-level and federal level Accessibility laws and guidelines with a large focus on the Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act standards. They will review the standards and discuss if they have applied any and all of their documents to these standards. References to the W3C standards will be included.
The course will introduce students to global accessibility standards that include, but are not limited to:
- Correct selection of fonts, embedding fonts
- Ensuring Language is set properly (within the application and within a document)
- Reviewing color and contrast in the project versus the industry standards for accessibility
- Reading Level and Reading Order
- Quality Metadata, requirements to be accessible
- If presented in a digital format, that ability to navigate the document by using the keyboard only. This will provide the students with the concept of tagging, and bookmarking, and using the Articles Panel.
- Consistency throughout the project (Creating and Using Accessible Styles)
- Checking the final PDF for accessibility compliance via Adobe Acrobat
During this single day course students will be encouraged to openly discuss their previous InDesign projects and reveal if accessibility was considered when they developed the project.