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InDesign Accessibility Tips We Wish We Knew Sooner!

Learn Chad and Dax’s favorite tips, tricks, and shortcuts to creating accessible documents in Indesign! Every application has hidden secrets, some so good you wish you knew them sooner. Join Chad and Dax as they share their experiences behind these shortcuts, how they found them, and how each tip can help you become a quicker, more proficient document accessibility expert. In this episode, they will cover how to name and outline heading levels, adding styles to headers, editing all export tags, different techniques to add Items to the articles panel, using the escape key to select the table cell, creating an object style for artifacting, and creating shortcuts to assign a heading level.

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Podcast Content

0:00 – Introduction
3:30 – Topic Introduction
5:57 – Name and Outline Headers
12:56 – Adding Styles to Headers
17:09 – Edit All Export Tags
20:13 – Adding Items to the Articles Panel
24:19 – Use Escape to Select the Table Cell
25:06 – Creating an Object Style for Artifacting
29:16 – Creating Shortcuts to Assign Heading Levels