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Re: Making offline Magazines accessible?

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From: glen walker
Date: Jul 22, 2021 11:21AM

What's an "offline magazine"? Is it just a PDF? Even with graphical
layout and visual branding, a PDF can still be accessible. Two big areas
that I'm sure you're aware of is "semantic" tagging (the magazine should
have headings, lists, tables, etc properly tagged) and reading order. With
some magazines, it's sometimes hard to follow the visual reading order
because things are sometimes sporadically laid out. If you can tell what
the reading order should be visually, then that same order should be
implemented in the tagging tree. If it's not obvious what the reading
order is, then you just have to do your best and pick an order.

So I think you can talk to the magazine people about those two simple
concepts and then add on info about color contrast and alt text.