Accessibility design and workflow

In this section, we will focus on Adobe InDesign’s set of controls to produce publications that are fully accessible when exported to .pdf. Authors and graphic designers who understand accessibility can take advantage of the following functions:

• Parent pages for page layout elements that should be treated as background or navigation
• Paragraph, character, and object styles
• Tables formatted using Table and Cell styles
• Threading stories across pages in multi-article journals or newsletters
• The Articles panel to control the content of a tag structure and the reading order in Acrobat
• Anchoring images and image groups for precise positioning within text
• Adding alternate text to images and charts using metadata and/or object styles
• Paragraph style settings to control the creation of corresponding accessibility tags when exported
• Hyperlinks, cross-references, bookmarks, and text anchors
• A generated table of...