Podcast 294
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In this episode…
- News
- Creative Pro Events full 2022 schedule is up!
- The Design + PowerPoint Summit, March 10-11
- CreativePro Week, May 9-13 (live in DC and online!)
- The Design + Marketing Summit, July 18-19
- The Adobe Illustrator Summit, September 22-23
- The Design + Accessibility Summit, November 29-December 2
- Pantone® and Adobe brouhaha
- Creative Pro Events full 2022 schedule is up!
- InDesign Collaboration Tips and Solutions
- Obscure InDesign Feature: Accessibility (it appears in an InDesign panel)
Sponsors for this episode:
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Links mentioned in this podcast:
- Anne-Marie’s InDesign Tips for Design Geeks video on extracting typefaces from text in images in InDesign 2022, a great new feature
- Pantone removing libraries from Adobe products
- Great tip for getting colors from the free version of the Pantone Connect app
- Collaboration tips:
- Anne-Marie’s Collaborative Workflows for Editors and Designers (course at LinkedIn Learning)
- Conrad Chavez wrote about InDesign collaboration through cloud services for InDesign Magazine
- Using InDesign’s Share for Review feature
- Em Software’s WordsFlow and DocsFlow
- Interview with Marcus Radich of PageProof
- Chad Chelius’s and Dax Castro’s Accessibility podcast
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I’m not an accessibility expert, but when I did a Google search on it, I found this interesting link:
https://accessible-digital-documents.com/blog/accessible-pdf-links-problem-in-indesign-version-15-indesign-2020/
This is saying it didn’t work in InDesign 2020 (15.0.1) but works in 15.0.2.
But I’d love to hear what Dax or Chad say about it.
About the “alt text” option for hyperlinks… I use it regularly, but agree with David that it doesn’t seem to DO anything, at least not for exported PDFs. I will keep using it anyway, in case I’m wrong.
As for what to type into it, what I used to do was write out the hyperlinks in a phonetical way (!) until I read in an accessibility forum that it’s better to just type something simple and short such as “Link to web page” or “Link to online registration form.”
Thanks!