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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Jan 5, 2015 1:30PM

+1 to Olaf's comment. Some people's workflow with InDesign supports accessibility with the tools available in the product directly, and some people like the support that is possible through a tool like MadeToTag. The reason that InDesign has an architecture that allows for extensions is to support this sort of thing.

However, neither the built-in tools for InDesign nor the MadeToTag tool will remove the need for an author to identify a correct reading order, identify headings and other structures, provide alternative text, etc., as I'm sure everyone on this list is aware.

AWK

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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Olaf Drümmer
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 3:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Adobe InDesign/PDF Accessibility

Hi Todd,

searching for
indesign pdf/ua
on Youtube.com will get you a couple of useful resources - some of them recordings from workshops and presentations I did in the last two years. Some of them discuss InDesign as such (the concepts and most details are identical for InDesign CS 5.5 through InDesign CC 2014), some introduce MadeToTag, a plug-in for Adobe InDesign (developed by my company axaio software, cf. www.axaio.com) that increases productivity, helps reduce the error rate, and fixes some issues that are tough to fix without specific software (even for pro's). As you will be able to guess I might be biased here, but all in all I think it is fair to claim that the videos will help get you going and understand how accessible PDF can be created efficiently from InDesign, and should save a lot of time whether one uses InDesign with MadeToTag or just plain Indesign.

Olaf



On 5 Jan 2015, at 17:41, "Weissenberger, Todd M" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> A constituent on campus wonders about resources for using Adobe InDesign to create source files that can be exported to accessible PDF. She has done some self-study at tv.adobe.com, but feels that the process described there is too cumbersome and time-consuming.
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> Has anyone encountered any InDesign resources that can help the casual document designer better understand and implement accessibility?
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> Thanks,
> Todd
>
> T.M. Weissenberger
> IT Accessibility Specialist
> University of Iowa
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