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Todd Marquis Boutin, CPACC, ADS (he/him)
Accessibility tip: Add alt text to the metadata of the image file. This approach has two advantages: (1) The alt text travels with the image. (2) InDesign can export the alt text in PDF and EPUB files. No need for separate alt text logs or repeated manual insertion. This approach is ideal for logos, icons, and other images that rarely need contextual alt text. But you can always customize the alt text for specific products. You can use Adobe Illustrator or Bridge to add alt text to the metadata. I prefer Bridge. It's free, and you don't need to open each image file to insert the alt text. Here's how it works. Step 1: Use the Favorites or Folder panel in Bridge to open the image folder. Step 2: Select the desired image. Step 3: Enter the alt text in the appropriate field of the Metadata panel. Step 4: Select "Apply." InDesign can pull alt text from several different metadata fields. But I recommend using the field named "Alt Text (Alternative)." This removes any ambiguity for the humans involved. To set the alt text for export, follow these steps in InDesign. Step 1: Select the image. Step 2: Open the Object menu. Step 3: Select "Object Export Options." The Object Export Options dialog box opens. The Alt Text tab is selected by default. Step 4: For Alt Text Source, select "From XMP: Alt Text (Accessibility)." The alt text from the metadata then populates the description field. This approach isn't perfect. It doesn't support the export of structured long descriptions with HTML tagging. But thanks to the IPTC, image metadata also has an "Extended Description (Accessibility)" field. For complex figures, you can enter the short description in the Alt Text field. Then you can enter the long description as HTML-tagged plain text in the Extended Description field. The long description won't be automatically exported from InDesign in a user-accessible format. But at least it will be available, pre-tagged, for a human to add. Image description: Text from the post appears above a graphic. The graphic shows an image of 3 apples above the image file name, 3 underscore apples dot PNG. Below the file name, arrows point to the IPTC Core section of the image metadata. In that section, the Alt Text field contains the text, 3 apples. #accessibility #EdTech #education #content #design
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Ronald D. Duckett, Sr.
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Steve Kuhn
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Todd Marquis Boutin, CPACC, ADS (he/him)
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Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
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Nancy Goulet
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Vincent Johnson
Please curb your enthusiasm for using exclamations marks in professional emails. It doesn't make you look more friendly. It sends mixed messages to more people than you realize. I recently had a potential new client turn down a proposal. And they were trying to word it in a benign way, as to not offend me I guess. Ending the single sentence with an exclamation point. Which is typically what I see when someone is excited to be working with me for the first time. In a reply to a follow-up email I sent for clarification, they end both of the sentences with an exclamation point. I can already hear some people thinking "ok Boomer" or "you're old," but that doesn't make me wrong. It makes you ageist. If you're in a company and you see this. Be the mentor to these people. You don't have to tell them to stop completely, but just maybe not every sentence.
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Michael Rankin
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