What do you do? Are you a designer, communications director, prepress technician, freelance art director, marketing coordinator, or copy editor? No matter your job title, if you work in InDesign—you spend your days thinking about visual communications. But is that enough, what about accessible design?

1. DESIGN FOR
EVERYONE.Tips for successful accessibility

2. HELLO!I am Niki Jennings
I am an Artist Illustrator for a North Carolina state agency.
My work can be found in state government buildings, State Parks and State
Libraries.
You can contact me at nikidjennings@icloud.com

4. IDENTIFYING A
BASIC NEED.
Can you read this?

5. The only thing worse than being
blind is having sight but no vision.
Helen Keller

8. RICH DESIGN
FOR POOR
VISION
∎ Awareness of visually impaired population
∎ A brochure designed with vision impairment in mind
∎ Solutions

9. VISIONThe term “vision loss”
includes people with any
degree of limitation in
seeing.
LOSS

10. NOT ALWAYS
BLACK AND
WHITE
VISION IMPAIRMENT
The limitation of actions and functions of the visual
system.*
Not correctable by glasses, contacts, medication or
surgery.
Interferes with the ability to perform activities of
daily living.
∎ LOW VISION
∎ BLURRING/DOUBLE VISION
∎ NEAR SIGHTEDNESS
∎ LEGAL BLINDNESS
*National Eye Institute

11. Normal Farsighted
(Hyperopia)
Nearsighted
(Myopia)

12. …BUT ALSO
SHADES OF
GREY
PROTANOPIA
Unable to perceive any red
light.
DEUTERANOPIA
Unable to perceive green
light.
∎ TRITANOPIA (Blue blind)
∎ PROTANOMALY (Red weak)
∎ DEUTERANOMALY (Green weak)
∎ TRITANOMALY (Blue weak)
∎ ACHROMATOPSIA
(Monochromacy)
∎ SHADE BLINDNESS

13. Normal Protanopia
(Red Blind)
Deuteranopia
(Green Blind)

15. TEST
IMAGES WITH
TEXT
DOES THIS WORK?
DOES THIS WORK?

16. WORRIED ABOUT LEGIBILITY?
GO BIG ON
TEXT AND
LEADING.

17. COLORBLIND
PROFILE (PS &
AI)*View Proof Setup
Color Blindness
Type
*Or upload image to color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simulator/

18. LEGALLY BLIND
Approximately .25% of population legally blind*
Braille readers make up 15%
Large print readers make up 55% of that total
*Metrolina Association for the Blind

19. ASSISTIVE SVCS &
SOFTWARE
Braille Transcription
nfb.org/braille-transcription-resource-
list
Audiobooks
Braille and Audio Reading Download
(BARD)
Colorblind
Visolve, Color Oracle
Browser Extension
ColorBlindEXT

20. Preview on variety of devices
Run proof samples AS IS, not FIT TO
PAGE
ALWAYS
TEST.

21. THANKS!Any questions?
You can reach me at nikidjennings@icloud.com