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Re: Making offline Magazines accessible?

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From: Ann L. Wiley Consultants Inc.
Date: Jul 22, 2021 11:27AM

I would welcome discussion of how to ensure documents of this kind are tagged correctly. This work seems to be very time consuming.

Thank you,

Ann

Ann L. Wiley Ph.D.
Ann L. Wiley Consultants Inc.
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Making offline Magazines accessible?

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.