<div dir="ltr"><div>Interesting and valuable work here.</div><div><br></div><div>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? </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Steve Bernhardt<br></div>Bayside DE<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 2:50 PM Jordan Frith <<a href="mailto:frithjh@gmail.com">frithjh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><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/" target="_blank"> 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"><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>
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