Adding alt text, video captions, and audio transcripts are small measures I’ve taken throughout my career to ensure the media I create is fully accessible. For social media, audio, and video, these small, easy steps bring your work to a larger audience.

PDF documents, on the other hand, can be a pain to make accessible. On Glacier’s education team, I was tasked with fixing ~50 inaccessible PDFs that were on the park website.

Rather than fixing them all one by one in Acrobat and re-uploading them, I made a new InDesign Template that ensured all elements would be fully accessible from the get go.

The strategy proved so successful that I created an SOP, complete with instructions for how to design your own accessible InDesign documents.

You can find the PDF version of that SOP, as well as a .zip file of the InDesign Package, at the links below.