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  • Thursday, October 29, 2026
  • Workshops & training

Make it Accessible: InDesign to PDF Best Practices

Disability Equity Office

Join this workshop hosted by Disability Equity Office accessibility specialists to learn how to build accessibility into Adobe InDesign documents from the start, shifting from retroactive remediation to a “born accessible” workflow.

We’ll briefly discuss key accessibility regulations and what they mean for your documents, then cover design decisions that make a big impact, such as color contrast, font choice, layout, and content organization. The core of this session will be a guided demonstration of InDesign features that support an accessible output, including:

  • text box threading
  • image anchors and alt text
  • paragraph style
  • export options
  • and much more

We’ll also show you how to export your content to a tagged PDF and provide resources for doing final checks and clean up in Acrobat. As a participant, you’ll receive access to a sample InDesign file to practice applying accessibility features along with additional resources for continued learning. There will also be time for Q&A.

Hosted by

SPH Instructional Services

Questions?

Joanna Kovacevich, sph.instruction@umich.edu