InDesign How-To: Set Alt vs. Actual Text for Accessibility (Video Tutorial)

In this InDesign video, Dax Castro explains the difference between alt text that describes an image, and actual text. The latter lets you enter text to be read by an assistive device when the design incorporates text displayed using graphics.

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[britx]

This is so timely! I have been waiting for Accessibility on InDesign. Since most of the client works require PDFs to comply to WCAG standards . This topic is almost completely new for me, and a lot to learn. I think this is a good start. Thank you Thank you!

[laishramimoton]

Nice video...👌👌👌please make a video on nested style, specially for newspaper i.e. headline, timeline and body text etc...

[ElRobboz]

Yummm…accessible raspberry cupcakes!!!

[harttransit]

Great info. Is there a way to create alternative text for text frames in InDesign or is that still only possible in remediation in Acrobat Pro?

[robertmacinnis]

Great vid. I consistently have a problem setting my alt text in InDesign. I set it the same way you do here, but when I export it, acrobat doesn't recognize any alt text on my images and I have to do them all again within acrobat. Any idea what I may be doing wrong?