ADOBE IS DISCONTINUING CREATIVE CLOUD SYNCED FILES ON FEBRUARY 1ST OF 2024
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VAST Guides are here!
By using VAST, you can learn how to add accessibility tags for screen readers to your PDFs, by using Adobe InDesign and Adobe Acrobat.
I'm super excited to release a brand new publishing community resource: VAST (or Visual Accessibility Skills Toolkit).
>> WWW.VAST.GUIDE <<
VAST is a collection of short articles aiming to spread awareness about what visual impairments are, and how folks in the small press industry can accommodate them.
The guides are split into four sections:
Visual Impairment 101 explores what visual impairments are, how visually impaired people navigate digital content, and introduces some current language and definitions (circa 2023).
Screen reading PDFs explores the basics of how screen readers navigate through digital content. Includes video examples!
Using InDesign introduces different tools that designers can use to make their documents more accessible.
Putting Into Practice presents case studies of common structures in roleplaying games, and how they could be given accessibility tags using tools covered in section 3. (Coming soon!)
VAST was developed by Brian Tyrrell (me!), and disability advocate and accessibility consultant Yubi Coates. Visually impaired consultants and InDesign experts were brought in to corroborate the guides.
All of the information in the guides is up to date, and we’re committed to reviewing and updating the guides in 2024 and 2025.
This project was completed using a small pot of funding provided by Creative Scotland’s Create: Inclusion program in 2022.
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"Federation Weekly, Vol. 69" (2023)
I made a saucy magazine cover, with a lot of gossip and great tips n' tricks! I did the art of Kirk and I found various pics of the crew online and made them into png-files.
Thank you @raspberryjamwatson for the inspo!
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Update!
Thank you everyone for the love! I've decided that I wanna finish this issue, so now I'm working on the table of contents. The page numbers and titles are still up in the air, though.
Maybe some of ya'll wanna contribute? I can't pay, but would be fun to collaborate! If not that's OK too <3
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remember, if you change Indesign preferences, you have to exit the program abnormally using the "exit" command instead of letting it exit through the normal process of crashing for the changes to stick!
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I have finished another project for my digital design class!! It was to make a fake yearbook page and I used horror characters!! I think it turned out great!
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Typesetting with Adobe InDesign
I am going to teach myself to typeset with InDesign, and I will try to chronicle the process!
Starting point: I know there is a program called InDesign.
Step 1: Acquire InDesign.
Success!
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Today, I learned about Optical Margins. Can you spot the difference?
Optical margins are basically 'hanging punctuations' made by pulling the punctuation marks outside the margins, pushing the letters flush to the text frame, and thus creating an illusion of straight text. The image on the left is without optical alignment, and on the right, with. I literally just printed 2 copies of my typeset and now I'm tempted to reprint them just for this new addition LOL
This article better expounds on this feature and its contribution to book design.
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A Well-Designed Brand Guidelines Presentation Template
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I’ve been rewatching the West Wing lately. Had to make a thing out of one of my favourite Sam speeches.
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