[ATTW-L] Sharing an "Accessible Document Design Best Practices" guide we created that we hope you all find useful

[Jordan Frith]

Hi all,
I'm emailing to share a resource we created at *Communication Design
Quarterly *that is likely relevant to many people on this listserv: A
best-practices guide to accessible document design
<https://cdq.sigdoc.org/accessible-document-design/>. I co-wrote this guide
with Hannah Taylor, and it focuses on various things people can do to make
your documents more accessible for a larger number of readers. The guide
covers various topics, including

   - designing documents to work well with screen readers
   - writing high quality alt text
   - formatting hyperlinks to make them accessible to people who use screen
   readers
   - running accessibility image checks
   - tagging content for accessibility in PDFs
   - running accessibility checkers

By no means is this guide comprehensive, but we hope people find it
valuable. Accessible document design is way more complex than most people
realize (certainly more complex than I realized), so we created this
document as a starting point for people who want to learn more about the
topic. Accessibility should be centered in everything we do, so we hope
this guide helps us all learn a bit more about how to make the documents we
produce more accessible.

Feel free to share widely, and don't hesitate to reach out to me if you
have feedback or thoughts or anything at all really :).

Best,

-- 

Jordan Frith, Ph.D.

Pearce Professor of Professional Communication

Clemson University

Pronouns: He/Him

Editor-in-Chief, *Communication Design Quarterly*

Editor, *The X-Series <https://parlorpress.com/pages/x-series>*, Parlor
Press

My Google Scholar Profile
<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OtvmSE0AAAAJ&hl=en>

My personal website <https://jordanfrith.com/>
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