Tag Archive for: indesign

Essential Tools and Services for Accessibility

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When it comes to creating accessible documents, you can do most of what you need in InDesign and Acrobat… but a third-party tool or online resource can often help you work smarter and faster. Discover this art director and accessibility expert’s favorite add-ons and services that can upgrade your accessibility workflow from good to great.

Topics include:

  • Demos of 3rd party plug-ins for accessibility
  • Reviews of online tools and resources for accessible design

Accessible PDF Files: Key Acrobat Techniques

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In the two earlier sessions (Accessibility Fundamentals for InDesign and Next Steps in InDesign Accessibility), we explored how to set up Adobe InDesign documents to export accessible PDFs. But there’s only so much InDesign can do! In this session, we’ll see the critical next steps you need to take in Acrobat.

Topics include:

  • Key Checkpoints to Check Every time
  • Accessibility versus Usability
  • Testing with a Screen Reader without being an Expert
  • How to Use the Preflight Panel to Your Advantage
  • Testing Tools You Should be Using

Next Steps in InDesign Accessibility

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In the previous session (Accessibility Fundamentals for InDesign), we laid out the basics: what every InDesign user needs to know. Now, we’ll take the next step and explore some of the most important rules for building accessible PDF files.

Topics include:

  • Working with Accessible Colors
  • Best Practices for Accessible Tables
  • Accessible Hyperlinks
  • Exporting to PDF and Checking for Compliance

Accessibility Fundamentals for InDesign

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Ensuring that the PDF files you produce are accessible to everyone is not only a good idea, it’s the right thing to do! In this session, learn about what accessibility and “Section 508” means and how you can produce PDF documents that are accessible to all!

Remember, as George Kerscher of the DAISY Consortium said, “Access to information is a fundamental human right.”

This tutorial is split into five separate sessions. This session takes you through the steps of adding accessibility features to your InDesign files.

Topics include:

  • How to build an InDesign document the right way from the start
  • Controlling content order
  • Using features that already exist in InDesign

Break Through Your InDesign Production Bottlenecks

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This session is a 4-minute romp through WordsFlow, a workflow plugin for InDesign that solves your most common production problem: last-minute or ongoing changes by authors and editors using Word & Excel. WordsFlow works by providing live links to your Word & Excel documents, and performing its “magic merge” on link update, rather than losing all your work.

(DocsFlow provides the same function, but using online Google Docs documents & sheets.)

It will be followed by immediately by a live Q&A session.

This session brought to you by our partner, Em Software.

Interactive PDF is Dead

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Have you ever exported an interactive PDF from InDesign only to find that the interactive parts were missing?

It turns out that a PDF doesn’t really support most of InDesign’s interactive features. In this session, you’ll learn why that is, and what options you do have to create interactivity without coding.

In addition to PDF, we’ll look at

  • Publish Online
  • Fixed Layout ePub
  • in5

You’ll get to see live, interactive projects that were created with InDesign and include

  • Animation
  • Audio & Video
  • Object States
  • Pop-ups
  • Buttons
  • Flipbook transitions
  • 3-D Flipcards
  • Responsive Layouts

This session brought to you by our partner, Ajar Productions.

MSOs and More: Next Level InDesign Interactivity

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This session is packed with even more interactivity that you can add to your InDesign digital documents. We’ll learn about MSOs — Multi-State Objects — how to create them, and how to control which state is showing, using both buttons and arrows.

We’ll also learn:

  • How to create hyperlinks: to phone numbers, email, web, google maps – and embed a map into a document
  • Create a slideshow of photos, control with a button
  • Create a graphic with multiple buttons, that when clicked, show specific information
  • Use MSOs and buttons to create a way to display different languages on one page
  • Create rollover buttons which activate both a text frame and trigger a different opacity of a photo for a cool roll-over and roll-off effect.

InDesign for Building Presentations

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You already have Adobe InDesign, so why not use it to help you make your presentations? After all, laying out a slide is very similar to laying out a page.

Join us as we explore:

  • Exporting InDesign documents to PowerPoint or Keynote
  • Amazing plug-ins, scripts, and resources to help you build high-quality slides
  • Why you should consider HTML5 (exported right out of InDesign!) for your next slide deck

Easy AR (Augmented Reality) for Print Designers

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Augmented Reality (AR) is a new medium for designers and marketing professionals to explore and take advantage of.

You’ll learn:

  • Steps for setting up AR scenes and triggers
  • Best tools for building AR, including Adobe Aero
  • How you can take your audience from print piece to web to AR in super easy steps

Putting it Together: InDesign, HTML, Video, and More

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In earlier sessions today, we’ve learned about creating animations and multi-state objects, adding timing and buttons, and more. Now, let’s put it all together, incorporate video and custom HTML widgets, and create a rich, interactive document!