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Artifacting InDesign objects
From the course: Creating Accessible PDFs
Artifacting InDesign objects
- [Narrator] In some documents, especially ones that are highly designed, imagery and graphics are often used strictly for aesthetic reasons. Elements like these really don't serve any purpose in the document nor have any value. So for these elements, we can prevent them from being read by assistive technology, by artifacting them. Let's take a look at how to do that in, InDesign. I've decided that this large image on the front cover, maybe I don't really want it to be read. Maybe it doesn't really have any value in the context of the document. I mean after all, this is an employee manual. And so how useful is it for me to describe different flavors of olive oil in a document such as this? So if I wanted to artifact this, what I can do is, I'm going to come up here with this selected, to the object menu, and I'm going to choose object export options. And previously I've added Alt Text to this. So I'm going to delete…
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Best way to generate the PDF file4m 58s
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InDesign layout considerations3m 29s
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Add required metadata in InDesign3m 53s
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InDesign styles and tag structure5m 39s
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Controlling tag order with InDesign6m 49s
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Control InDesign reading order6m 57s
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Create InDesign captions6m 38s
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Anchoring objects in text frames6m 11s
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Work with tables in InDesign6m 21s
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Interactive hyperlinks in InDesign5m 45s
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Create a list with InDesign5m 9s
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Add cross-references in InDesign5m 55s
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Creating an InDesign table of contents6m 21s
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Alternative text for images and graphics in InDesign5m 54s
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Artifacting InDesign objects4m 5s
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PDF bookmarks in InDesign3m 3s
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InDesign footnotes and endnotes7m 4s
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Including an index with InDesign4m 51s
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Finishing touches and validating4m 29s
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