“Hello, and welcome to the Visual Accessibility Skills Toolkit, or ‘VAST’!
VAST is a series of short articles aiming to spread awareness about visual impairments and their associated access requirements, followed by a series of guides that will help you to use accessibility tools in Adobe programs.
The goal of VAST is to help make the average self-published document more accessible than it currently is.
If you’re already certified to work in accessibility-focused pre-press or PDF remediation, you’ll probably be familiar with everything covered in these guides (and more), and may want to aim for a specific standard, such as W3C’s WCAG 2.1.
VAST is divided into three sections:
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Visual Impairment 101 explores what visual impairments are, how visually impaired people navigate digital content, and introduces some current language and definitions (circa 2023).
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Screen reading PDFs explores the basics of how screen readers navigate through digital content.
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Using InDesign introduces different tools that designers can use to make their documents more accessible.”