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Need to make your documents accessible? Meet our new partner

Whether you have a single file or magnitude of legacy documents, our new document remediation partner can make them accessible for you. TaggedPDF is Australia’s first 100% dedicated PDF tagging service.

InDesign how-to: Tagging long tables in PDF documents

Designers often use InDesign to create PDF documents that contain tabulated data spanning multiple columns or pages. Annual reports, for example, commonly have long tables of financial figures and other data. In this article you will learn how to create accessible data tables that span multiple pages using InDesign CC and Acrobat Pro DC.

Government’s Digital Service Standard puts users at the core

Last month saw the release of the alpha Digital Service Standard by the Australian Government’s Digital Transformation Office (DTO). With a strong emphasis on user-centred design and inclusive services, the Standard establishes the criteria that all Australian digital government services must meet to ensure they are simpler, faster and easier for everyone to use.

Make PDFs readable by people who are blind with InDesign

PDF files, like other web content, must be ‘accessible’. In this article you’ll learn key techniques for creating PDF files from InDesign that can be read by people who are blind.

PDF accessibility update from Australian Government

It’s here—the Australian Government has declared its position on accessibility of the Portable Document Format (PDF) based on research undertaken by Vision Australia's Digital Access consultancy.

Effective alternatives to inaccessible CAPTCHAs

CAPTCHAs are implemented purely to stop spammers. The negative impact CAPTCHAs can, and often do, have on user experience often seems to be overlooked. We recommend text-based alternatives, logical thought systems and other visual CAPTCHA alternatives that can be more usable and accessible.

Online and print inclusive design and legibility considerations

Developed to support the creation of accessible content and equal access to information for people with disability or age related impairment, this resource is intended to help you identify the main considerations for accessibility and inclusive design when creating a web page or electronic document.

FAQ and practical tips for Word and PDF accessibility

We’ve compiled a list of frequently asked (and somewhat obscure) questions to have come from this year’s Creating Accessible Documents workshops, with answers provided by our team of experts.

Email marketing guide – how to create accessible EDM campaigns

Many organisations produce electronic direct mail (EDM) campaigns for marketing purposes. These types of campaigns land directly in people’s inboxes, so it’s imperative that their recipients, including those with a disability or impairment, have access to the information they contain.

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