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

[Stephen Bernhardt]

Interesting and valuable work here.

It may just be me, but I experience some ambiguity with the phrase
"Accessible Document Design." Are the recommended guidelines to assure
accessibility to the widest possible audience (designing documents to be
usable) or to assure accessibility to the specific audience of persons with
one sort of disability or another?

Are these goals identical? On reading the email, I first imagined the
broader, more general case. But the guidance quickly corrected me in its
focus on readers with disabilities.


Steve Bernhardt
Bayside DE


On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 2:50 PM Jordan Frith <frithjh at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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>
> Clemson University
>
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>
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>
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