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Accessibility basics & best practices

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Type: Webinar Recordings
  • Categories: Accessibility, InDesign, PDF

In this webinar, accessibility expert Chad Chelius teaches the basics of accessibility and shows how to achieve it with InDesign and PDF files. Chad covers the fundamentals of accessibility, how to achieve accessibility using InDesign, what you need to make PDF files accessible, and much more. This is the perfect primer for anyone new to accessibility, but there’s plenty for accessibility pros too.

Publishing accessible standards

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Type: Presentations & Panels
  • Categories: Accessibility, Standards

20 May is Global Accessibility Awareness Day—what better time to discuss how publishing content in accessible formats makes it more usable for everyone! This session focuses on the principles of accessibility in publishing, and practical steps you can take to create accessible standards.

How to write better alt-text for images

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Type: Papers & articles
  • Category: Accessibility

Alternative text, or alt-text, is a short description of an image that explains the content of an image to a user or a search engine. Learn how to write better alt-text in this article by Huw Alexander from textBOX.

Standards and accessibility

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Type: Presentations & Panels
  • Categories: Accessibility, Standards

Creating your content in accessible formats makes it more usable for everyone! In this presentation, Solutions Consultant Damian Gibbs discusses the principles of accessibility. He also explains how Typefi can help customers produce content in accessible formats with minimal additional cost.

Accessibility and law

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Type: Presentations & Panels
  • Categories: Accessibility, Legal

In this presentation from the 2018 Typefi User Conference, Typefi Business Development Manager Emily Johnston discusses accessibility legislation and standards that affect publishers around the world.

Case study: International Telecommunication Union

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Type: Presentations & Panels
  • Categories: Accessibility, Case Study, Multilingual Publishing

In this presentation from the 2018 Typefi User Conference, Simon De Nicola, Head of the Publication Production Department at ITU, shares how Typefi helped the organisation implement accessible publishing. The ITU now produces accessible publications in six languages using Typefi.

Technologies for accessible publishing

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Type: Presentations & Panels
  • Categories: Accessibility, Technology

In this presentation from the 2018 Typefi User Conference, Guy van der Kolk, Typefi Senior Solutions Consultant, demonstrates how technology can make accessible publishing easy—and maybe even fun!

Trends in publishing

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Type: Presentations & Panels
  • Categories: Accessibility, Publishing

Chandi Perera, Typefi CEO, discusses recent trends in publishing, including the growth of book publishing, the tenacity of print, the popularity of various digital formats around the world, the rise of indie publishers, the increasing focus on accessibility in publishing, growing challenges for publishers in keeping their back lists discoverable and readable, and more.