The solution to inaccessible documentation can be as simple and low-tech as making a better index… With proper indexing, ten per cent more effort will double the accessibility of information. William Horton, A quick (and not too dirty) fix for online documentation, in Technical Communication
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- abbreviations, making accessible in Word, InDesign and PDF
- accessibility
- accessibility checkers
- accessibility vs. compliance
- accessibility, compliance and link alt text
- accessible PDF and PDF/UA-compliance are not the same thing
- accessible typography survey
- Ace (Accessibility Checker for EPUB 3), beta release
- Acrobat Professional
- Acrobat Reader app, accessibility support announced
- actual text (attribute in PDF)
- Adobe Illustrator , see Illustrator (Adobe)
- Adobe InDesign , see InDesign
- Adobe InDesign Uservoice forum alt text post
- all caps headings, InDesign and Word techniques
- alt text
- Android, PDF accessibility support announced
- annual reports
- ANZSI (Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers)
- app.alert(); (for accessible PDF footnotes)
- archiving PDF (PDF/A), accessibility issues
- ARIA testing with Ace (Accessibility Checker for EPUB 3) (beta)
- Arial (font), accessibility problems of
- artifacts, soft vs hard hyphens
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) coming to PDF
- Ashmore, Mark (film maker)
- assistive technologies
- Australian Federal legislation on indexing reports
- auto-scroll in PDF
- A–Z indexing
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- background colours, contrast issues
- Bailey, Bruce
- banning italics, the case against
- banning PDFs, the productivity argument against
- banning skipped headings, the case against
- Berkowitz, Daniel
- BIC Breakfast, accessible ebooks
- biographies, directors'
- BISG quick start guide to accessible publishing
- blockquotes, use of italics
- bookmarks (PDF)
- Bringhurst, Robert
- browser plug-ins, PDF accessibility and
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- C-Pen Exam Reader
- Cabinet Office correspondence on the EU Accessibility Directive
- Calibri (font), accessibility of
- captions as heading substitutes
- charts, accessibility of across formats
- Christmas PDF accessibility wish list (2019)
- Claro Read
- colour blindness, accessible infographics and
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colour contrast
- colour contrast: accessible infographics and
- colour contrast: customisation, the importance of (W3C Text Customization Wiki)
- colour contrast: darker backgrounds anomaly
- colour contrast: human judgment and
- colour contrast: PDF background colour customisation bug returns in Acrobat/Reader DC
- colour contrast: PDF/A compliance and
- colour contrast: PDFs rendered in browser plug-ins and
- colour customisation
- colour of text, the
- CommonLook, response to, on accessibility vs compliance
- continuation sheets, accessibility of in PDF forms
- Cornish, Katie, et al. (2015)
- Crown Commercial Service
- custom links (in Acrobat)
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- Daisy Consortium releases Ace (Accessibility Checker for EPUB 3) beta
- DDA (Disability Discrimination Act (1995)) and the EU Accessibility Directive
- directors' biographies
- Disability Discrimination Act (1995) (DDA), relationship with the EU Accessibility Directive
- discoverability and metadata
- discretionary (soft) hyphens
- document accessibility
- document formats, accessibility and productivity
- document title as heading level 1
- Dolson, Joe, on reversed-out text
- double spaces (don't)
- Dragon Naturally Speaking
- Drümmer, Olaf, (2012), How feasible is text customisation for PDF?
- dyslexia
- Dyslexia and the creative mindset - animation and book
- Dyslexie (font) in vBooks PDF Voice Reader
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- Elements of Typographic Style, The
- emphasis
- end-user choice
- endnotes, accessible, in PDFs
- engineering students and accessibility
- EPUB
- Equality Act (2010), relationship with the EU Accessibility Directive
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EU Accessibility Directive, the
- EU Accessibility Directive, the: approved by the European Parliament
- EU Accessibility Directive, the: Cabinet Office correspondence on
- EU Accessibility Directive, the: comes into force, 23 September 2018
- EU Accessibility Directive, the: relationship with the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA)
- EU Accessibility Directive, the: relationship with the Equality Act
- even colour of text, how to achieve
- exams
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- financial tables
- font accessibility survey
- footnotes
- foreign words and phrases, use of italics
- formats, relative accessibility of
- forms
- Formula tag (PDF) not working in NVDA
- Foxit, accessible PDFs from, training
- Freedom Scientific
- French translations on this site
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- G-Cloud 11, suppliers to
- German translations on this site
- getField(); (in scripting PDF bookmarks)
- Good Fonts For Dyslexia, Rello and Baeza-Yates (2103)
- Goodman-Deane, Langdon, & Clarkson. (2010)
- GOV.UK
- graphic design students and accessibility
- graphic design, inaccessibility of
- graphs, accessibility of across formats
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- H&J (hyphenation and justification) violations
- headers vs headings in data tables
- heading levels
- Herr, Dave
- How to find the right PDF remediation firm
- HTML
- hyphenation
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- IDs and Headers
- Illustrator (Adobe)
- image description(s)
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InDesign
- InDesign: accessibility training
- InDesign: accessible indexed PDF example
- InDesign: accessible PDF form example
- InDesign: all caps headings
- InDesign: creating accessible abbreviations in
- InDesign: hyperlink accessibility bug in version 15.0.1 (InDesign 2020)
- InDesign: importing structured content into from Microsoft Word
- InDesign: indexing capability
- InDesign: justified text, fixing
- InDesign: link alt text disabled
- InDesign: nested lists bug in InDesign 2020
- InDesign: page numbering bug in InDesign version 16.01 (2021)
- InDesign: paste into, background colour customisation accessibility workaround
- InDesign: soft hyphens in
- InDesign: tables of contents
- InDesign: Uservoice forum alt text post
- indexing (A-Z)
- infographics, accessibility of
- inter-word text justification
- iOS
- ISO 32000 and the PDF Formula tag
- italics
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j
- JavaScript
- JAWS
- Johansson, Roger, on reversed-out text
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justified text
- justified text: Bringhurst, Robert, The Elements of Typographic Style
- justified text: colour of text, the
- justified text: double spaces (don't)
- justified text: hyphenation and
- justified text: in HTML
- justified text: InDesign tools and techniques for fixing
- justified text: inter-word
- justified text: rivers of white
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- kickstarter project - dyslexia and the creative mindset
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- language of parts, the
- legibility
- legislation: The EU Accessibility Directive comes into force
- Libre Office, accessible PDFs from
- links
- literacy software solutions
- low vision, colour customisation and PDF/A compliance
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- Mac event.fieldFull beep
- MAGic
- magnifiers (screen)
- Manutius, Aldus The Elder
- mapping InDesign styles to tags
- market size, accessibility
- mathematical expressions
- merged table cells
- metadata, discoverability and accessibility in publishing
- Microsoft Word , see Word, Microsoft
- mobile devices, PDF accessibility support announced for iOS and Android
- myths in accessibility, skipped headings
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- navigation, ONIX accessibility metadata category for
- nested lists bug in InDesign 2020
- newspaper, text justification
- NVDA
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- ONIX Code List 196 category types
- online training
- Open Office, accessible PDFs from
- over-reliance on automated PDF accessibility checkers
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p
- page navigation command (PDF)
- paragraph styles
- paste into, InDesign background colour accessibility workaround
- PDF Accessibility Days Conference, Copenhagen, 2015
- PDF Aloud
- PDF forms
- PDF/A, accessibility issues
- PDF/UA
- Perspectives in Assistive Technologies (Stanford University course)
- Pitt, Martin (reader with dyslexia) on italics
- productivity
- pronunciation
- Protected areas in Word forms, accessibility issues
- publications
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q
- quality issues with PDF accessibility vendors
- Quinn, Sherrey
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- Read&Write Gold
- Readability Group, the
- readability, factors determining
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reading order
- reading order: accessible infographics and
- reading order: footnotes in PDFs and
- reading order: ONIX accessibility metadata category for
- reading order: PDF accessibility and
- reading order: PDF accessibility and (reprise)
- reading order: PDF Aloud (video demo)
- reading order: PDF non-tag-reading assistive technologies and
- reading order: vBookz PDF Voice Reader and
- reading solutions , see literacy software solutions
- real text, accessible infographics and
- Reference tag, screen reader handling of
- reflow
- Rello and Baeza-Yates (2013)
- remediating PDF to a specific screen reader
- remote continuation fields (PDF forms)
- rivers of white and text justification
- roman numerals, NVDA support for
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- screen magnifiers
- screen magnifiers/readers combined, usage statistics GOV.UK survey
- screen readers
- scripting
- setFocus(); (in scripting PDF bookmarks)
- skipped headings
- soft (discretionary) hyphens
- sponsorships
- SSML (Synthetic Speech Markup Language)
- standards compliance
- standards, limitations of
- Stüvel, Sybren A.
- style mapping, from Word to InDesign
- sub-lists , see nested lists bug in InDesign 2020
- summaries for tables in PDFs
- SuperNova
- survey: font accessibility
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tables
- tables: de-mystifying PDF table summaries
- tables: financial, common design errors
- tables: merged cells
- tables of contents
- tagging PDFs for accessibility
- TalkBack, PDF accessibility support announced
- testing PDFs for accessibility
- text
- Times New Roman, accessibility problems of
- Tingtun PDF accessibility checker, comparison with Acrobat Pro
- title tag or heading level 1 in PDF
- tools
- training
- translations on this site
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tutorials
- tutorials: accessible abbreviations in Word, InDesign and PDF
- tutorials: accessible PDF footnotes and endnotes
- tutorials: creating accessible links in PDFs
- tutorials: fixing broken anchors in PDFs
- tutorials: fixing justified text in InDesign
- tutorials: importing structured content from Word into InDesign
- tutorials: InDesign workaround for PDF background colour bug
- tutorials: over-reliance on automated PDF accessibility checkers
- tutorials: PDF accessibility and browser plug-ins
- tutorials: scripting bookmarks in PDFs
- tutorials: soft hyphens in InDesign
- typographic style, access to, limitations in PDF
- typography, accessibility survey
- typography, problems with Arial and Times New Roman
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- UK law, EU Accessibility Directive comes into force
- university courses addressing accessibility issues
- user choice
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- vBookz PDF Voice Reader for iOS
- video
- video conferencing, Zoom, accessibility of
- visual accessibility, lack of in graphic design
- VoiceOver, PDF accessibility support announced
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- W3C
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WCAG 2.0
- WCAG 2.0: compliance, ONIX accessibility metadata category for
- WCAG 2.0: SC 1.4.8, visual presentation and justified text
- WCAG 2.0: SC 3.1.2, the language of parts
- WCAG 2.0: SC 3.1.6, pronunciation
- WCAG 2.0: skipped headings, position on
- WCAG 2.0: testing with Ace (Accessibility Checker for EPUB 3) (beta)
- WCAG 2.0: Understanding Guideline 3.1 (avoiding chunks of italic text)
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WCAG 2.1
- WCAG 2.1: merged table cells and
- WCAG 2.1: SC 1.3.1, info and relationships
- WCAG 2.1: SC 1.3.3, sensory characteristics and empty table header cells
- WCAG 2.1: SC 1.4.10, reflow, importance of for accessible PDF
- WCAG 2.1: SC 1.4.11 non-text contrast
- WCAG 2.1: SC 3.2.2, change of context
- WCAG 2.1: SC 4.1.1, parsing
- WCAG 2.1: Technique H63 (tables)
- WCAG 2.1: Technique PDF6, RowSpan and ColSpan attribute
- WebAIM
- What to do when a screen reader doesn't read a remediated document correctly—a response
- Windows event.fieldFull beep (lack of)
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Word, Microsoft
- Word, Microsoft: accessibility training
- Word, Microsoft: AI-generated image descriptions
- Word, Microsoft: all caps headings
- Word, Microsoft: creating accessible abbreviations in
- Word, Microsoft: forms, accessibility issues
- Word, Microsoft: merged table cells
- Word, Microsoft: setting changes of language in (video demo)
- Word, Microsoft: tables of contents, excluding H1 from
- workflows, PDF, enhancement of
- works, styling in italics
- World Report on Disability, 2011
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- XML
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- Yank, Kevin, on microformats
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z
- Zitkus et al. (2013a)
- Zitkus, Langdon, and Clarkson (2013b)
- zoom attribute for PDF links
- Zoom Text
- Zoom video conferencing, accessibility of
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