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Chad Chelius and Dax Castro during an Accessibility Podcast with the Chax Chat Logo between them.

Unique Struggles of Document Accessibility Amidst the COVID Pandemic

Listen to this week’s podcast to learn how to breakdown where you are now and how to get better in 2022. See Dax and Chads 10 Accessibility Areas of Growth and score yourself from 1 to 10 in each of these areas to know where you need to grow in 2022. Then develop a game plan to improve in those areas and re-evaluate yourself every 3 months to keep accountable.

Chad Chelius and Dax Castro during an Accessibility Podcast with the Chax Chat Logo between them.

How to Automate Alt-text Descriptions for Quicker Accessibility

Chad and Dax talk about ways to speed up alt-text description input. Learn some new ways to embed alt-text into your images and figures to shorten the process of creating accessible documents.

Topics include:
• Automating Alt-text
• How to make writing Alt-text easier
• Storing Alt-text in Meta Data
• Creating Alt-text in bulk
• Alt-text Object Styles for InDesign
• Alt-text Headline, Title and Description
• Three ways to set Meta Data
• Importing Accessible Styles
• Setting default styles for every document

Chad Chelius and Dax Castro during an Accessibility Podcast with the Chax Chat Logo between them.

Table Summaries and Formatting Accessible Tables with Complex headers

Take a deep dive into the world of accessible tables with Chad and I. We cover blank cells, cell structure and where MS Word falls short. We also discuss why table summaries are not required to meet accessibility standards anywhere. To be fair, we also mention they still improve accessibility. Join us as we spiral down the hole of table formatting and what makes a table accessible this week on Chax Chat where we unravel accessibility for you.

Chad Chelius and Dax Castro during an Accessibility Podcast with the Chax Chat Logo between them.

Heading Pitfalls, MS Office Bug and Free Accessibility Script

Check out this episode where we reveal a newly discovered bug in the latest release of MS Office plugin for Adobe Acrobat Export PDF. Chad and I also talk about the typical pitfalls of pasting content from one document to another and how phantom heading tags can be misapplied. Hear our best practices for walking the tags tree and why you can forget dealing with those pesky span tags. Be sure to tune in so you can get the FREE InDesign Accessibility Tool Chad just developed! Do things like check for document title, assign alt-text and automatically map heading structures from your styles panel. You definitely want to hear him tell you all about it in this episode!