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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Nov 11, 2016 7:46PM

Whenever you can avoid lengthy Alt-text and keep the critical information as live, tagged text, the better the experience for everyone using AT.

This is an ideal case for using Adobe InDesign for the layout and design, and then exporting a compliant PDF from the layout.

All of the boxes, arrows, lines, and other visual doodads can be set to artifact within InDesign. Then, the remaining live text can be sequenced into a good Reading Order through InDesign's Articles and Layers panels.

We have more tricks and methods for this type of diagram but they're too lengthy here to describe. I'll be teaching an all-day InDesign workshop at the Accessing Higher Ground conference this coming week, but I don't think I'll have the chance to cover that during the session.

--Bevi Chagnon

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