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092 Adding ALT tags to your images

092 Adding ALT tags to your images - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

092 Adding ALT tags to your images

When you export a document to PDF and then put it on the Web or email it to somebody, you don't know if they might be visually handicapped, the person who is trying to read this. And in Reader or Acrobat or anything that reads a PDF, most people who have a visual impairment will use something called a screen reader to read aloud the PDF to them. One of the most obnoxious things about PDFs when you are trying to use a screen reader. Is that, very few people bother to add an Alt tag to the images. An Alt tag means that when the screen reader is reading text, and it comes to an image. It doesn't just say, image. It says a description of what the image is. An alternative to the image. And, that is something that you as the designer needs to put that in. So, how do you add an Alt tag to an image? In InDesign, let's go to Normal mode. You simply select the image with the Selection tool. This is only available, by the way, in CS5.5 and 6. Otherwise, you would've had to do things with XML…

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