VAST Guides are here!
By using VAST, you can learn how to add accessibility tags for screen readers to your PDFs, by using Adobe InDesign and Adobe Acrobat.
I'm super excited to release a brand new publishing community resource: VAST (or Visual Accessibility Skills Toolkit).
>> WWW.VAST.GUIDE <<
VAST is a collection of short articles aiming to spread awareness about what visual impairments are, and how folks in the small press industry can accommodate them.
The guides are split into four sections:
Visual Impairment 101 explores what visual impairments are, how visually impaired people navigate digital content, and introduces some current language and definitions (circa 2023).
Screen reading PDFs explores the basics of how screen readers navigate through digital content. Includes video examples!
Using InDesign introduces different tools that designers can use to make their documents more accessible.
Putting Into Practice presents case studies of common structures in roleplaying games, and how they could be given accessibility tags using tools covered in section 3. (Coming soon!)
VAST was developed by Brian Tyrrell (me!), and disability advocate and accessibility consultant Yubi Coates. Visually impaired consultants and InDesign experts were brought in to corroborate the guides.
All of the information in the guides is up to date, and we’re committed to reviewing and updating the guides in 2024 and 2025.
This project was completed using a small pot of funding provided by Creative Scotland’s Create: Inclusion program in 2022.
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"Muttie the Acrobatic Cat." Source.
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- Jester!Sans <33 by @hheisa
- First time drawing an acrobat pose! It was stressful 🥲🥲❤️
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Poetry, I suspect, was ruling my stars from the very first moment of my being. I had no way of avoiding its grips.
— Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Acrobat, transl by Nandana Sen, (2021)
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When you invite your friends to watch a movie but they're not invested in it.
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(2/6) "R is for Righteousness!" 💙
Richard Dick Grayson was the very first Robin. He was the one who decided that Robin- amongst all things- would become a hero. Fighting for Justice alongside The Dark Knight of Gotham despite the tragedies they both started with. He who allowed Robin to first spread his wings and fly amidst a brooding city perpetually plagued by darkness. To become the world's new beacon of youthful hope, a memory of a comforting smile to those he saved, and a time honored legacy to those who would come after him. -Bubbly💙
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02-17-24 | misterlemonztenth.tumblr.com/archive
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