<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div>I'm emailing to share a resource we created at <i>Communication Design Quarterly </i>that is likely relevant to many people on this listserv:<a href="https://cdq.sigdoc.org/accessible-document-design/"> A best-practices guide to accessible document design</a>. 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</div><div><ul><li>designing documents to work well with screen readers</li><li>writing high quality alt text</li><li>formatting hyperlinks to make them accessible to people who use screen readers</li><li>running accessibility image checks</li><li>tagging content for accessibility in PDFs</li><li>running accessibility checkers</li></ul><div>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. <br><br>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 :). </div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Jordan Frith, Ph.D.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Pearce Professor of Professional
Communication</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Clemson University</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Editor-in-Chief, <i>Communication
Design Quarterly</i></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Editor, <i><a href="https://parlorpress.com/pages/x-series" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">The
X-Series</span></a></i>, Parlor Press</span></p>

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