Accessible Digital Product Publishing System™
Move accessibility upstream into authoring, export, verification, and release so PDFs, ebooks, and digital documents are materially easier to navigate and understand with assistive technology.
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Build accessibility into the source instead of trying to repair everything after export.
Treat document accessibility as a production workflow spanning semantics, navigation, alternatives, visual legibility, reading order, forms, metadata, and final verification.
Create meaningful structure at the source.
Use semantic headings, lists, table structure, link purpose, image alternatives, language, and deliberate visual hierarchy before export.
Preserve usable document semantics.
Check tags, reading order, text alternatives, forms, OCR, metadata, and interactive references rather than assuming the export preserved intent.
Release with evidence, not assumption.
Combine automated inspection with human review, bounded remediation, release criteria, and retained evidence appropriate to the document and audience.
A source-to-release workflow for more accessible digital documents.
Build structure and navigation
Work through semantics, headings, lists, repeated structures, tables, images and alternatives, links, and navigational clarity.
Control visual and reading behavior
Address color, contrast, legibility, reading order, tags, forms, fields, OCR, language, and document metadata.
Verify the release
Use field labs, evidence records, a 30/60/90 implementation plan, source notes, and final QA to make accessibility part of normal publishing operations.
Accessibility work is broader than a checklist.
This publication is educational publishing guidance, not legal advice or a certification of WCAG or statutory compliance. Applicable obligations vary, and WCAG techniques are informative examples rather than the normative success criteria themselves.
Structure. Export. Inspect. Correct.
Choose one real source document, improve its semantics before export, inspect the resulting file for reading order and alternatives, test critical interactions, correct the source where possible, and retain release evidence.
