Chax Chat Accessibility Podcast

Chad and Dax take this session to talk about the possibility of having too much accessibility in the form of multiple patterns in pie charts. They discuss the merits of several approaches to making pie charts visually more accessible. Stick around to hear them give out some secret sauce for troubleshooting tables that just don't seem to want to pass accessibility. Their tip might just save you hours of needlessly hunting for the mislabeled property. Oh, and if you want to skip the koi pond banter, skip ahead 7 minutes. Watch this podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-F1VtJyMW34

Are you using accessible color contrast and colorblind-friendly designs? Chad answers the question: "Does it really Matter if I make my designs colorblind compliant?" Learn some important colorblind statistics and find out who needs to make their designs accessible? We share some things you can do to make your graphic colors accessible and review the WCAG success criteria 1.4.1 Use of Color. Dax gives you some easy ways to make your maps more accessible and Chad shares the color contrast ratio for Graphics and his preferences for making line graphs more accessible.

Senior UX Researcher, Inclusive Designer and Accessibility Design Lead Sonya Lewis agrees to be our guest this week to talk about how the Reading Order in PDFs impacts her ability to apply for heathcare enrollement, participate in her workplace and overall online presence. Chad and I loved her response when we asked the question "What do you say to people who think the Reading Order in PDFs doesn't really matter?" Be sure to listen in to hear Chad ask an important question about Snoop Dogg and his role in accessibility. This episode is one of the best we've had this year! Don't you dare miss it!

We stumbled on to an online design tool that is giving Canva a run for their money. We show you our first impressions about the product and the accessibility features it has and a few ways we might suggest improving it. We also reveal the new EASY way to set the PDF/UA Identifier in Adobe Acrobat. Dax mentions the upcoming guest and their struggles with reading order in PDF documents. Finally, Chad reveals some insights on Form Tags: Before or after the text label?

Listen to Chad and Dax talk about alternate descriptions for hyperlinks and what WCAG has to say about it. We mention PDF/UA-2 set to remove the mandatory requirement for alternate link descriptions. Chad shares a users comment "I want users of assistive technology to have the same crappy experience a sighted person has when reading long URLs." You will get a chuckle out of our "Six Degrees of separation from Dyson," and why where the link takes you matters. Later on we discuss how visual cues reduce our cognitive load and share the PDF for the Do No Harm Guide on Design Visualization found at https://bit.ly/a11yDNHG Chad explains "Reading through a rectangle" and Dax discusses at what point is the level of effort too much or enough? We end with balancing "no significant barrier" and level of effort in documents. Definitely an information-packed episode.

CAUTION: Highly controversial accessibility topics in this podcasts: Do we need to set the reading order in my PDFs? 2. Title Tag or H1? We discuss a real-world situation where someone's barrier to information in a PDF is not vision. However, because of a traumatic event this person has dyslexia and requires audio input to fully understand the content on the page they are reading. We discuss how reading order is affected by the source document. We look at MS Word and InDesign and discuss the challenges with each when considering reading order. We also discuss designing with accessibility in mind to account for setting the reading order as the content is developed rather than addressing it in the end. Once again we approach perspectives on using the Title tag as the title on the cover of a document even though screen readers today only announce it as a tag which doesn't declare any structure or importance. We also discuss the potential risks and benefits of manually "fixing" the title tag or the H1. Buckle up for this one! You will either love us or start yelling at your phone or computer! No worries. We can take it.

This week's podcast is truly an amazing goldmine of information if you struggle with creating accessible infographics? Chad Chelius and Dax Castro walk through 7 Questions to ask yourself before creating an accessible infographic: What do we want the user experience to be? What is the most important information? Does Content order matter? Does color or line weight indicate additional information? What is the volume of data? (Do I need an alternate presentation?) Can I support the graphic with additional body text? Can I test the user experience? Stay tuned toward the end, where we talk about how certain bullets are voiced by JAWS and the info on how to download the PDF that lists a ton of them. I bet you will be surprised at more than a few. I hope you find this podcast useful because it is definitely one of my new favorites we have recorded this year!

In this episode we talk with Recosoft Founder, Paul Chadha about Decks MoveIn. This is a great plugin for creating InDesign documents from PowerPoint slides. We all know that PowerPoint was never meant to be a desktop publishing software. It is a presentation tool. However, there are times when we need to push the content limits. Instead of spending an hour or more fixing your PDF, just move from PPT to InDesign and let the Decks MoveIn plugin from Recosoft help speed up the process. Stick around to learn more about how Decks MoveIn can even convert Keynote, Canva and Google Slides to InDesign as well.

In this accessibility podcast episode, we discuss designing with accessibility in mind when it comes to the covers of magazines and maps in your PDF documents. We talk about the importance of reading order and understanding how a user might want to read the document from both a screen reader and a sighted user experience. This is a really great episode packed with some really interesting ideas on methods for presenting accessible content. For sure one of my favorite podcasts to date!

In this episode we talk about the difference between barriers, violations and poor user experiences. We review a practice we are seeing more and more of, navigation bars inside PDF documents. We discuss a few solutions using Adobe InDesign to use these navigation bars in a more accessible way. Listen in and Chad will give you a huge time-saving way to incorporate those nav bars in the most accessible way possible. Dax talks about ways to structure your PDF document to improve the user experience even more.

In this episode we cover the potential risks for remediation professionals concerning the newly released Assembly Bill AB 1757. We also reveal a very important bug in the latest update of Adobe Acrobat. Stick around to hear Chad and I explain the difference between alt-text, actual text and expansion text. Then Chad reveals how to turn off the new switched layout in the latest Acrobat Interface Update. Make sure you listen to the end to hear how Adobe fixes long style names and Chad reveals a tool I never knew existed in Adobe InDesign. He tells how the "Break Link to Style" tool works and when and why you should use it.

Join Chad Chelius and Dax Castro as they discuss some great tips for presenting accessibly when giving a PowerPoint (or OneNote) presentation. If you stay til the end you will get the URL to the handout that goes along with their talking points. I bet there are at least a few you hadn't considered!

Chad and Dax take a look at some interesting new trends from the WebAIM report published every few years. #9 has some really interesting turns in the statistics that we take a closer look at.

Accessibility Advocate Cam Beaudoin joins Chad Chelius and Dax Castro on Global Accessibility Awareness day (GAAD) to talk about ways to keep your company motivated to take action to improve accessibility beyond the celebratory day.

Chad Chelius and Dax Castro talk through some of the nuances of the European Accessibility Standard, EN 301 549. Do you know which countries adopted this standard? Some things we found were surprising and others just made sense. Stick around to hear our discussion on Reflow and why it is missing from the accessibility standard.

In this podcast, Chad Chelius and Dax Castro talk about the top 7 things that usually come up for people just starting their PDF remediation journey. How many of these have you experienced? Not only do we talk about them, we help you solve them! Listen in as we cover the following 7 struggles for new PDF accessibility remediators. What is the correct size for accessible text? My content disappeared! Reading Order messed up my Tags Tree! Links in my header/footer are not being tagged! My hyperlink descriptions are not being voiced! Why do I keep getting irregular table errors? What program should I use to remediate my content? If you want to know how to fix or address any of these errors ake sure you listen to this episode on your favorite streaming platform or watch us now on YouTube!

This episode of Chax Chat discusses what you need to know when transitioning from WCAG 2.0, 2.1 and getting ready for WCAG 2.2 for your PDF documents. We cover: 1.4.10 Reflow AA - Users with low vision who need to make things larger. The content will wrap inside the viewport instead of causing horizontal scroll. 1.4.11 Non-Text Contrast AA: Extends 3:1 contrast minimums to important graphical information, visible focus indicators and other interactive controls when those indicators are necessary to identify the control as interactive. 1.4.12 Text Spacing - people think this applies to PDF but it does not. Listen to the podcast to learn why. 2.5.8 Pointer Target Spacing (AA) - The size of the target for pointer inputs is at least 44 CSS pixels 3.2.6 Consistent Findable Help (A) - Contact info in footer consistently 3.3.7 Redundant Entry (A) - Fillable forms with repeat entries should have the same Field Name. Watch the video: https://youtu.be/VZoQmerCwmo

Chad and Dax jump in front of the camera for this episode. You can find the video on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@a11y. In this eposide we cover the steps to making sure your document is compliant and usable. Many people do not understand what it means to be accessible and think that passing the PDF checker is all that is needed to "be accessible." You do not want to miss the key steps we cover that you need to make sure your document is actually usable for people using assistive technology and those with low vision, color blindness etc.

Accessibility Podcast: How to use the FREE ISO-32000 PDF/UA Standard PDF Standard ISO 32000-2 is available for free! Chad and Dax peel back the cover of the 1003 page PDF/UA standard. They focus on Chapter 14 and key areas you might find useful. Download the standard at PDFA.org/sponsored-standards and follow along with us. Make sure you are using MS Edge because we found the cart has some compatibility challenges. Chax hits 25,000 podcast downloads Pave the Way to Global Accessibility Awareness Day Visit: http://nic.edu/PWGAAD Be sure to listen to our findings about Hidden or Invisible Content if you have ever thought you cannot use hidden content or that it is illegal or against WCAG to do so. We reference specific directions on this important technique for providing enriched user experiences. In Chapter 14 Document Interchange we answer the following questions: 1. What is an MCID? - Table 357 2. Why you get the duplicate MCID error 3. We reference 14.8.2.2 "Real Content" and "Artifacts" to understand what each of these elements are 4. What is a BBox and why do you get a BBox error and how to fix it? 5. Can you use Hidden or Invisible Page Content? We reference Section 14.8.2.4 and the answer might shock you! 6. What is the difference between Page Content order and Logical Content (Tag) order? We take a look at 14.8.2.5 Page Content order and Logical Content Order (Tag Order) and what it says there. 7. What are Container Tags and why should I care? We look at 14.8.4.2 Nesting of Structural Elements to look at the Document, Part, Article, Section, Div elements and even the non-struct tag and when you should use it. 8. What is the Aside tag? We also talk about how the Aside could be improved. 9. What is the difference between a block-level and inline-level element. Not only do we explain what it is, we look at the table in section 14.8.4.5 10. What is a Caption tags and how to use it? This is an episode you will want to listen to over and over again. We unpack a lot in this one! Did you have a favorite topic from this episode you want us to dive deeper into? If you want us to do more disection of the PDF/UA ISO-32000 please let us know in the comments below. http://nic.edu/PWGAAD

Guests Jeremy Seda IT Accessibility Coordinator and Jacalyn Stallings Vocational Rehab Counselor tell us all about the upcoming Pave the Way for Global Accessibility Awareness Day at North Idaho College April 19th. We talk about creating a culture of change and a few teaching moments related to unintended microagressions. It was great to hear Jeremy's approach to keeping momentum and building a culture of intentional accessibility at North Idaho College. Jacalyn brought up an amazing benefit for audio descriptions that we had not considered. This is a great episode that you definitely don't wanna miss.

Should certifications be hard? Chad and I discuss Karl Groves' recent article that discusses the question and why we agree. Chad and I discuss another great question: "Do links always need alt-text?" We take a look at what WCAG 2.4.4 Link Purpose says and whether it supports, or doesn't support the idea that hyperlinks always need alt-text. You have to listen to Dax's analogy as he compares an insole and a shoe to an annotation and the link text. Listen to the What do you think? Did you know that when you apply alt-text to a link the descriptive text replaces the URL? It fundamentally acts like Actual text and does not voice the visually available text. So you need to be careful about what you use as a description. Be sure to tune in to hear Chad walk through how to map new styles in MS Word to accessible heading styles and even how to properly map the existing Title style to an H1. He continues to drop serious knowledge when he talks about what not to name your styles in Adobe InDesign.

Special guest Harpaul Chadha (Paul) from Recosoft Corporation, joins us to talk about solutions for creating InDesign files from Accessible PowerPoint and PDF documents! WHAT??!?! Yep. PowerPoint to InDesign is a thing and DecksMoveIn makes it happen, accessibly! Paul talks about how DecksMovein considers accessibility when importing your content. This plugin transfers your reading order, alt-text and creates styles to properly import your PowerPoint content into InDesign. Chad and I mention the possible opportunity to move clients from PowerPoint to InDesign. We remeniss about a client or two that use PowerPoint to create flyers and other documents and how this might be a good tool to bring them into a formal design program. I really enjoyed listening to Paul and his authentic consideration for InDesign users. It was really great to hear his passion and commitment to producing quality content that considers how users create and format their files. Be sure to stick around to listen to Chad discuss Paul's other product PDF2ID that literally takes a PDF and resets it into a useable and viable InDesign document. I had no idea the product had been around for 15 years! If you have ever wanted to grab all the assets from a PDF (images, charts, and graphs) to use elsewhere, Paul's tool Assets to ID is amazing. The fact that it put them in folders by page is really smart! At the end we brainstorm about how to make the tool even better by maximizing alt-text and a few other cool thoughts! Be sure to check it the free demo at www.recosoft.com

Chad and Dax talk about the journey of accessibility for the online design platform, CANVA. You may be surprised to know that just a few months ago there were no tags available for any CANVA document. While they have made some improvements and documents are now saving with some semblance of tags, there is still a long way to go to meet the WCAG Success Criteria 1.3.1 Info and Relationships. If you are using CANVA as a design platform you do not want to miss this episode. Share this post with your Art Director if they are telling you to use CANVA and still want you to make the documents accessible. Stick around for our discussion on inline Figures in Microsoft Word. If you struggle with passing the Microsoft Word Checker error of "Images not inline," you will want to hear us discuss why this happens and what you can do or not do about this error.

Accessible Tables Podcast Chad and Dax jump feet first into dispelling some myths about accessible tables and have a change in thinking about another common table practice. Be sure to listen how Dax's opinion on the A1 cell has changed. Chad makes a great arguement for maintaining the best practice of adding a meaningful label in the A1 cell. Make sure to say tuned to hear our plea to Adobe to allow us access to a key area of a table from the tags tree and Dax's super secret tip for troubleshooting a broken table. Link to Blank Cells Blog Post http://bit.ly/Blankcells Link to Podcast on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6p76kx2LHProHMFdcuRmmf Link to Podcast on Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chax-chat-accessibility-podcast/id1561464055

Join Chad Chelius and Dax Castro as they welcome Jason Taylor Chief Innovations Officer at UsableNet to discuss the ADA Digital Accessibility Lawsuits and Trends Report. Learn how they collect the data for the report. Find out what happened in 2017 that sparked the report. Chad brings up the topic of Overlays and the ensuing discussion may shock you. Dax has a suprising point of view on them. Find out the answer to the question of "Who is checking anyway?" Chad brings up the different legal point of view between Canada's legal outlook on accessibility and the USA. You won't want to miss his comments on web accessibility and Jason's closing comments on a corporation's legal risk relating to accessibility.

Join our guests Christine Foushi and John Foliot of Content Industries as they talk about accessible epubs. We explore the different versions, how they are structured. Did you know that epubs are basically HTML 5 documents? Stay tuned to listen to us talk about the importance of metadata at the book-level rather than the data-level. We reveal the secret of converting a zip to an epub and how to reverse engineer a word doc to get to the hidden zip contents! Christine and I also have a great discussion about the woes and wonders of alt-text for images. Finally, we get to hear about the online epub testing tool currently under development. This was a really interesting episode!

Listen to Chad and and Dax talk about the accessibility problems that are created when typed hyperlinks span multiple lines. We give you the reasons why it happens and some workarounds to fixing it or planning for them. Make sure you listen until the end learn how to set alt-text using Adobe Bridge and our thoughts on captions and alt-text uses. You will learn when to use either. Are you using them correctly?

Guest David Herr, VP of Enterprise Solutions at Allyant joins us to talk about accessibility checkers and discuss the answer to"Are they enough?" Do you know what the standards are they are checking for? David talks about the difference between CommonLook Validator and CommonLook PDF and announces CommonLook Online. We take a moment to lament about fixing errors manually and with power tools. Make sure you stick around to hear the announcement of PAC for MAC! It is here (online)! We wrap up by talking about Perfection versus No Significant Barrier and why State and Federal institutions cling so tightly to the Standard versus "no significant barrier" Chad's Ah-Ha moment at the end about tagging a list item as a paragraph will make sense once you hear why!

Join Chad Chelius, ADS and Dax Castro, ADS for a special podcast featuring the benefits of using Axaio's MadeToTag plugin for Adobe InDesign. Do not forget to listen to the end for the special Adobe MAX giveaway! • Setting Row Headers in InDesign • Layout Tables? No problem • Fixing Complex Table • The 7 steps for accessibility using MadeToTag • Extended Style mapping • Easily edit alt-text in one place • New features releasing at Adobe MAX • Set the Initial View preset • The End notes paradox • Addressing Multi-line Hyperlinks • Why long style names break the role map • Callas PDFgoHTML • Special Adobe MAX Giveaway

Our guest Caroline Desrosiers of Scribely joins us to talk about her role in the upcoming Adobe Bridge update for accessible meta data. She also discusses why alt-text can be so challenging and even reveals some of the questions her team uses to create meaningful descriptions.

The question of when to edit the source versus the PDF document almost seems obvious to answer. But our discussion might surprise you. We also talk about the Content Key for Alt-text in Adobe InDesign and why (for now) filling it out might just be time NOT well spent. Do not miss this episode if you are an InDesign user. We promise there are some great nuggets of wisdom in this show.

Accessibility Podcast #32: Understanding the Accessibility Checker in Microsoft Word. There is so much packed into this podcast that I can hardly believe it myself. Chad and I walk through some of the handouts for our upcoming MS Word Accessibility class on Sept. 29th and we also talk about several key features and steps for making your Word docs accessible. We also discuss the most common Checker errors you will encounter: 1. Missing Alt-text 2. Image or Object Inline 3. Merged or Split Cells in a table 4. Check the Read Order 5. Hard to Read Text Contrast 6. No Header Row (in your table)

Chad talks about his recent discovery of solving the Acrobat error that pops up when you have an Lbl (Label) as a footnote tag without an accompanying L (List) tag structure. We also review what the ISO standard has to say about it and why. Stick around to listen to us review the three most common problems people run into when trying to test documents with a screen reader. I am betting you are doing at least one of them.

Chad and Dax talk about the "Last Mile" approach to creating accessible documents. They discuss the tools to help you get your documents passed that last mile and what to do when you simply don't have time. Have you ever heard of the H tag? We know about H1 through H6 but the seldom talked about H tag has been long forgotten because NVDA and JAWS simply voice this tag as a paragraph rather than voicing "Heading." Listen in as Chad and Dax talk about what they discovered regarding this tag and how it can now be utilized in your documents (with some caveats) and don't forget to download the Accessibility Quick Reference Card at the top of our homepage accessibilityunraveled.com

5 Ways to get your team on board with accessibility. 1. Start with awareness by asking: a. Did you know how this works for screenreader users? b. Have you seen this cool app for color blind simulation c. Did you read this article on Harvard's efforts to caption their videos? 2. Chad discusses how to demonstrate easy wins 3. Learn how tracking time can help get people on board to cut down workflow 4. Find out the secrets of snacks and how they can open the door to accessibility acceptance 5. Engaging don't Complain: Provide solutions when pointing out issues a. Keep track of recurring roadblocks and plan extra enrichment b. Provide Checklists and support docs/videos We also answer the questions: 1. Is it worth taking the IAAP Accessible Document Specialist Test ADS? 2. How long should it take me to remediate a document? Listen to learn how you can get the Level of Effort Matrix PDF free!

This week Chad Chelius and Dax Castro talk about some of the key topics in their upcoming class "Designing with Accessibility in Mind" Listen in as they focus on things like the difference between Actual Text and Alt-text and you might be surprised at their discussion on PowerPoint and adding a description of decorative to the alt-text in the PPT draft. They also talk about AAA accessibility considerations and why it can be an unreachable goal to be 100% AAA compliant. Do not forget to use Promo code EARLYB22 to get $75 off the upcoming course happening September 15th!

Check out this episode as we walk through 7 accessibility fails you would never know where there without testing with a NVDA. We sneak in about 5 or 6 other things to watch out for as well. If you don't have the PDF that goes with this episode you can download it on our website chaxchat.com or reach out to us on LinkedIn for a copy.

Do you ask yourself "What do I want the end-user experience to be?" when designing your forms? What about the heading structure of your document? Chad and Dax take this episode to talk about what you should be asking and how your decisions impact the user's experience. We talk about forms, heading navigation, bookmarks, footnotes and endnotes, and even captions and where to put the accessible transcript when you have one. You definitely do not want to miss our discussion on the Shared Destinations bug in Adobe InDesign as well.

There are so many good nuggets of info in this podcast on tables! If you struggle with tables, you cannot miss this episode. I think the biggest takeaway was when we go over the process of table self-discovery: Why did I put this in here? What do I hope the user will get out of it? Am I presenting it in a way that meets my goal? Why am I presenting it this way? Why are there so many compartments in this table? Do not forget to listen to the end for the 50% off ONE DAY ONLY promo code for our Accessible Tables class that happens this Wednesday!

We are really excited to share this week's accessibility podcast with you. We interview Senior Creative Manager "Jason" from a large healthcare organization about the challenges of balancing accessibility and workload in his department. He talks about their initial journey, understanding the gaps, and how his team is leveraging accessibility Subject Matter Experts to bring their designs across the accessibility finish line. Jason relates the realities of this delicate balance to maximize productivity while ensuring compliance. You definitely do not want to miss this episode if you are struggling with the dilemma of workload, budget, and accessibility.

Accessible SVGs (Scalable Vector Graphics) featuring Guest Heather Neff of Equivalent Design. If you have ever wanted to understand how smart SVG graphics can increase accessibility while maintaining brand style this is the podcast for you. Chad and Dax talk with Heather Neff about her goal to bring SVGs to the world "One graphic at a time." We talk about embedded alt-text and how WordPress now pulls description metadata straight from your images and how that can improve your search engine placement.

In this episode, Chad Chelius and Dax Castro talk about the difference in what you want and what you show as it relates to the idea of hiring more people with disabilities in your organization. We also discuss the article they wrote discussing why companies are turning to in-house accessibility remediation and compliance teams and the three common problems driving the decision. 1. Outsourcing accessibility can be expensive 2. Our workflow requires tight turnaround times 3. New commitment DEI Other topics include the importance of workflow and QA/QC when dealing with non-native languages and Battling the excuse of "We don't have time..."

In this accessibility podcast, Chad Chelius and Dax Castro talk about common pitfalls in creating accessible PDF forms. We passionately discuss the merits of circles and squares related to checkboxes and radio buttons. We also share some great insights on our upcoming webinar Document Accessibility in Higher Education. Be sure to register on our website - Accessibilityunraveled.com. Other topics in this great podcast include: Your first blind student: Are you ready? Accessibility Workflow roadblocks in Higher Ed Register here: http://bit.ly/ChaxHE Creating Fillable PDF Forms Why not just create an HTML form? Upcoming 3-hour class: Creating Fillable PDF Forms Register http://bit.ly/ChaxClasses Adobe Fill and Sign: Access Denied for AT users The common pitfalls of creating forms The good and bad of Auto Detect Form Fields Auto Detect doesn't tag the fields Why you should start with a tagged document before adding form fields Why you should walk the tags tree after adding form fields Why squares and circles matter when creating forms Shortcomings of Indesign for Forms What is a Comb in a form? Complex Form Field Placeholders with Made to Tag InDesign Form Calculations with ID-extras.com Sharing the struggles in Excel for accessibility Accessing Higher Ground 2-day Secret Lab! Amplify for SMPS - AEC Accessibility

In this accessibility podcast, Chad Chelius and Dax Castro discuss what it actually means to be an accessibility advocate. Accessibility is piled on to most people's workload. However, taking a personal interest in digital accessibility usually takes hold after your first few months. But what does that really mean? What is the difference between being a remediator and an advocate? What do you do when there is pushback from your company? From a vendor? From your department? These can be tricky situations.

This episode has lots of great tidbits but there are two standout sections of this podcast. We talk about the merits of an untagged PDF document that links to an HTML alternate version or to an email address. Is this an acceptable practice? We debate both sides. Listen in because I think you will very surprised when we tell you which agency is doing this. We also talk about Table structure and how the PDF/UA standard can help you understand if your tables need scope.

In this episode we are joined by accessibility advocate, blogger and TikTok personality James Warnken. We discuss James' new blog post:"Screen Magnifiers are no longer the option for low vision users." As a low-vision AT user, James shares with us his findings when he asked his TikTok audience what technology they use most. His answers are definitely insightful.

Chad and Dax have joined force to use their accessibility superpowers for good! Please listen to our exciting announcement in this special short podcast episode. We talk about the upcoming online training "Document Testing with a Screen Reader" and all the exciting new features of the site including how you can book our time to solve those one-off problems in our booking calendar. If you register early you can save $75 off our first two classes and get 20% off your next one!

In this podcast Chad and I talk about turning the InDesign limitations of exporting Caption Tags into a benefit. We also explore some alternate presentations to bar charts and how to deal with banks of images labeled by a single figure title. We also review two different references in the 14289-1 PDF/UA standard and how they apply to footnotes and figured. Be sure to stick around for our discussion on how solving one accessibility barrier can create another!

How do you tag a catalog that has a full page of color swatches? Chad and Dax tackle this and several other burning questions. We review our amazing time at Creative Pro Week and Knowbility AccessU. Dax reveals a 'seemingly obvious' tip to change focus from the tags or bookmark bar to the main content using keyboard only in NVDA. Be sure to stick around to hear how Chad blew Dax's mind while on-stage at Creative Pro Week.

Join Chad and Dax as they reveal several hidden techniques like disabling MS Word's Automatic Alt-text. Do you know what a Graphical Object is? Make sure you listen in and hear them explain some key principles of accessible color that many people misinterpret. Listen to Chad explain how accessibility is like a hole in a piece of paper. This is definitely an episode packed full of nuggets of wisdom.