Poor contrast between text and background is of great importance for those with sight difficulties. ❌ InDesign offers no way to check text contrast. 🟢 Circular Software displays contrast ratios of InDesign content and whether within A11y guidelines. bit.ly/CircularA11y

The reading order of InDesign bears no relation to position of objects on the page or styling used. ❌ InDesign Articles panel means users must manually add and reorder content. 🟢 Circular Software adds visual and editable reading order markers. bit.ly/CircularA11y

‘ARIA roles’, the modern method used to indicate the meaning of content, are widely used on the web and are recommend within EPUB. ❌ InDesign offers no way to add ARIA roles. 🟢 Circular Software automatically adds useful ARIA roles to every EPUB. bit.ly/CircularA11y

The level and ordering of headings is an important feature in ebook structure. ❌ InDesign offers no way to view or check applied heading hierarchy. 🟢 Circular Software visually labels heading tags then checks and flags when hierarchy out of sequence. bit.ly/CircularA11y

Descriptions of images and figures should be added so their meaning can be delivered as text, braille or voice. ❌ InDesign alt text is applied individually in an grey dialog box 🟢 Circular Software visually prepares images for descriptions in bulk bit.ly/CircularA11y

Many publishers do not use InDesign’s generated Table of Contents. ❌ InDesign requires user to make a complex uneditbale internal table of contents. 🟢 Circular Software users adds an editable accessible multi level contents page in their ebooks. #InDesignBetter

After export EPUBs should be checked for validation against the EPUB standard and for accessibility issues. ❌ InDesign offers no method of validation. 🟢 Circular Software connects with epubcheck for validation and runs ACE A11y report on EPUBs. bit.ly/CircularA11y

Section markers and landmarks identify and navigate major parts of an EPUB. ❌ InDesign offers no way to add section markers and landmarks. 🟢 Circular Software tools add visual section markers and landmarks to InDesign pages which are then added to your EPUB. #InDesignBetter

Position images into text flow in InDesign to appear at the relevant place in reflowable EPUB. ❌ There is no way to check if images are anchored into text 🟢 Circular Software checks and flags any images that are not anchored for reflowable ebooks bit.ly/CircularA11y

The ability to check that a file is ready for accessible export, whilst still in InDesign is a great benefit. ❌ InDesign offers no accessibility checks. 🟢 Circular Software has multiple checklists that reports and flags accessibility issues in InDesign. bit.ly/CircularA11y

📢 Exciting news! The #Publishing Accessibility Action Group website has launched! Check it out: paag.uk If you attended our #WednesdayWisdom Q&A session with PAAG Chair Stacy last month (or even if you didn't!), you'll definitely want to take a look.

Circular Software is a proud partner of Design + Accessibility Summit. See you there?

How can typesetters, publishers and content creators be required to create accessible publications if they don’t have the tools to make them? There is hope… No-code Accessibility for InDesign at Digital Publishing Summit 2023 on June 20th. #eprdctn edrlab.org/events/digital…

Circular Software - So good that Rob de Winter commits to the laptop sticker after his first demo at #CreativeProWeek

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The recent session 'No-code accessibility from InDesign' by Ken Jones was the second most attended session of the week at the Digital Publishing Summit 2023 with people from 19 different countries tuning in to the live stream! youtu.be/9_xYi28qLDk

Thank you to our amazing Design + Accessibility Summit sponsors: Adobe Cacidi Systems Circular Software EM Software FontLab PowerPoint PageProof® Recosoft Corporation Santa Cruz Software Learn more about our sponsors at CreativePro.com/partners