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From: chagnon
Date: Mar 6, 2023 9:15AM

Colleen, just checking to make sure I understand the situation.
The icon graphics are made in Adobe Illustrator and then used as bullets and as anchored graphics in paragraphs in the InDesign layout, correct?

Questions:
1. What file format is being used to bring them into the InDesign layout?
2. Is the graphic icon file flattened? And does it contain only the icon image, not anything else?
3. At what stage in the workflow is the Alt Text and Actual Text being added to the icon: in Illustrator or InDesign?
4. Since InDesign doesn't allow us to use graphics as bullets, how did you get your icons to become bullets?

You have 5 stakeholders in this scenario: Illustrator and how it encodes a file; InDesign and how it encodes a PDF when exported; Acrobat and how it processes the content in the PDF; and 2 screen readers, NVDA and JAWS, and how they process/render the file.

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