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Accessible InDesign + PDF

Book cover, Accessible InDesign Plus PDF. Bevi Chagnon's thorough guide to making layouts in Adobe InDesign that export to accessible, complaint PDFs. Updated for InDesign 2021.

225+ page workbook with step-by-step details from start to finish. Large screen captures provide the settings and details that make your documents accessible. Covers not only tags, but sticky issues like controlling the reading orders in a PDF, Articles and Layers panels, Alt-text, accessible tables, TOCs, footnotes, hyperlinks, and strategies to make accessible sidebars and other designer doohickeys.

$55 USD per copy (print only)

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Accessible Lists in InDesign

Cover of accessible lists in InDesign. PubCom's 16-page cheat sheet shows how to create various types of lists in Adobe InDesign layouts that covert to accessible tagged PDFs.

Covers the current PDF/UA-1 accessibility standard for bulleted lists, numbered lists, nested lists, and naked lists.

$9.45 USD per copy
Format is a Downloadable PDF file.Format: Digital download in accessible PDF file.

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The Standard Tags for Accessible PDFs

Chart of the standard PDF tags. PubCom's quick one-page guide lists and explains the set of tags for accessible PDFs. Includes where and how to use them, how they are intended to be used.

Covers the current PDF/UA-1 accessibility standard.

$5 USD per copy
Format is a Downloadable PDF file.Format: Digital download in accessible PDF file.

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Unicode Character Chart

Unicode Character Chart.Got Dingbats? is a handy 2-page (one sheet, double-sided) guide to 108 of the most commonly used Unicode characters for STEM symbols, punctuation, dingbats, emoji, and other special characters for publishers. Also recommends OpenType/Unicode fonts with extended character sets and embedding rights that allow you to distribute and sell your documents without additional licensing fees.

$9.45 USD per copy

Format is a Downloadable PDF file.Format: Digital download in accessible PDF file.

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Cheat Sheet for Accessible Word and PDFs

Cheat Sheet for Accessible Documents.Bevi Chagnon's cheat sheet for creating accessible documents (PDFs and Word documents) per WCAG and PDF/UA accessibility standards. This cheat sheet is part of the core foundation materials in her accessibility classes for MS Office, Acrobat PDF, and Adobe InDesign.

Using easy-to-understand prompts, it guides users as they check their files for basic compliance requirements.

Perfect for those who use MS Office and Adobe InDesign, or who must check PDFs made by others.

$5 USD per copy

Format is a Downloadable PDF file.Format: Digital download in accessible PDF file.

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Coming this summer

Accessible Word + PDF

Book cover, Accessible Word Plus PDF. Bevi Chagnon's complete guide to making accessible MS Word documents that export to accessible, compliant PDFs. Updated for Word 365.

175+ page workbook with step-by-step details from start to finish. Large screen captures provide the settings that make your documents accessible. Details how to clean up and correctly format Word.docx files for accessibility. Not only are the Word documents themselves accessible, but PDFs exported from them are more compliant.

Includes: The best methods to format for accessibility, correct legacy documents, start a new document from scratch, control the document's structure (tags and reading order), accessible tables, Alt-text, TOCs, footnotes, hyperlinks, and strategies to provide better Word files that will be imported into desktop publishing programs like Adobe InDesign.

$55 USD per copy (print only)

Coming in later 2021

Book cover, Accessible PDFs.  Book cover, An Introduction to Accessible Information.  Book cover, accessible PDFs: The Visual Guidebook for PDF/UA-1 Compliance.  Book cover, Accessibility for Writers and Editors.

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