Bevi's Blog

Periodic ramblings on digital media, Section 508 accessibility, web development, government publishing, academic publishing, and other topics.

Bevi Chagnon
CEO and Founder, PubCom.com

Accessible PDFs and Documents

• Tutorial: A Simple Guide for Writing Alt-text
  Part 1: The Basics
• Tutorial: Checking the reading orders in PDFs
• PDF/UA-1 Tags for Accessibile PDFs
• Rethink Alt Text
• Accessibility testing: Screen readers
• Tutorial: How to handle hyphenation
• Why headings are critical for accessible documents
• Tutorial: Making Accessibile Footnotes in InDesign
• Tutorial: Actual Text on Odd Bullet Glyphs
• Internal (non-public-facing) documents: Which ones are covered by Sec. 508?
• Tutorial: PDF Remediation: How to fix tables
• A Teaching Moment. Teaching accessibility to our design students
• Beyoncé cited for inaccessible website. Yes, that Beyoncé!
• DOJ's Mueller Report is not accessible. How this affects Americans.
• Section 508 for Government Publishers — updated 2018 January
• Reading orders: Tags vs. the Order panel
• A 508 Strategy
• The Accessibility Standards:
  What’s the Difference between WCAG, Sec. 508, and PDF/UA?
• Fonts, Typography, and Accessibility:
  How your font choices affect accessibility; Unicode, OpenType, and special characters
• New features for accessibility in InDesign CC:2017 and Acrobat DC
• Oh, Metadata!
  How Metadata Helps You (and Search Engines) Find Your Documents (includes Phil Shapiro's hilarious video)

Technology, Fonts, and more

• Fonts, usage licenses, and your wallet
• Fonts, Typography, and Accessibility:
  How your font choices affect accessibility; Unicode, OpenType, and special characters
• New Font Tools: new in Creative Suite 2018
• Font Management and Linotype's FontExplorer X Pro for Windows
• Running Windows on a Mac

Adobe Acrobat and PDFs

• Tutorial: Fix Acrobat tables: Part 1 (Table Editor)
• PDF 101: What's a PDF?

Technical Advisories, Research, and Briefings

• Why Vendors Must Provide Accessible Deliverables
• The Accessibility Standards: What’s the Difference Between WCAG, Sec. 508, and PDF/UA stantards?
• The US Civil Rights Laws for those with disabilities: ADA, Section 508, education.

Software

• Disaster-Proof your Upgrades
• Latest software versions
• New Font Tools: new tools in Creative Suite 2018
• New features for accessibility in InDesign CC:2017 and Acrobat DC
• Publishers, Designers, and Adobe's Creative Cloud: Software Choices in FY 2014.

Web Development

• Protecting your domain:
  Bevi's guidelines for registrars and web-hosting
  
• Update: Domain Registration & GoDaddy's founder killing an elephant.

Publishing

• It's 2011: where's your career heading?
• The Real Production Workflow