Hello! I have inherited a 32-page magazine InDesign file that needs to be made ADA compliant moving forward (particularly with defining text as H1, H2, etc.). The document has a ton of preset Character and Paragraph Styles from the previous designer, but none of them had their Export Tagging defined, and honestly I can’t even determine exactly what each style was used for since there are so many.
Are there any best practices you can recommend to me regarding how to efficiently move forward with this? Should I delete the existing Character & Paragraph styles and start from scratch (so that I know what they’re for and so I can tag them from the start)?
Also, this magazine has multiple styles of fonts used across the pages (as you would expect for a magazine), and as such, there are multiple times when paragraph text is represented by different fonts. Is there a way, though, that I can apply a “P” (paragraph) tagging to text without altering its visual styling? For example, could I highlight a box of text that may or may not have a Character Style on it already, and then simply apply a “P” tag to it without affecting any other aspect of it? I’m thinking of this as a workaround instead of rebuilding all the Styles from scratch.
Thank you in advance for any help and suggestions you can provide!
-Adam
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