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Allayne Woodford

Accessible documents – teaching with empathy

May 23, 2016 By Allayne Woodford

There’s a Chinese proverb that says, “Tell me, I’ll forget. Show me, I may remember. But involve me, and I’ll understand.” It’s a good approach to take when you’re in charge of training people to become accessible content creators.

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Two people conversing at a table with a laptop

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Filed Under: Accessible PDFs, Microsoft Word, PDF standards Tagged With: accessibility, accessible, accessible document, the importance of empathy, training, training tips

When an accessible template isn’t an accessible template

April 12, 2016 By Allayne Woodford

Is the term ‘accessible template’ an oxymoron? I’ve been pondering this question over recent weeks while working on various documents for a range of clients and realising that, while the end result of using an accessible template is an accessible document, the usability of the template itself is often lacking.

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Floating Word document icon

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Filed Under: Microsoft Word Tagged With: accessible content, challenges, Microsoft Office, reader, user experience, Word documents

Are you wasting your time creating an accessible PDF?

February 15, 2016 By Allayne Woodford

The collective knowledge around the creation of accessible PDFs is slowly but surely growing, making this flexible format more widely available to people of all abilities. But what if you make your PDF accessible, yet someone still finds it inaccessible because of the way they open it?

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PDF button on a computer keyboard

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Filed Under: Accessible PDFs, PDF standards, Web browsers Tagged With: accessible content, accessible PDFs, acrobat, adobe, challenges, reader, user experience

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