From Fixing to Planning: Accessible Workflow Essentials

About this episode

Dax Castro and Rob Underwood discuss how effective planning and file management can enhance accessibility projects.

Join Dax Castro and senior trainer Rob Underwood as they unpack how smarter file management and planning can transform your accessibility projects. They dig into practical strategies for setting up metadata, creating consistent heading structures, choosing and managing accessible color palettes with CC Libraries, and planning alternate formats for charts and tables before you ever hit export to PDF. Along the way, they tackle the realities of inherited files, layout tables, and multi-person workflows, showing how clear roles and reusable systems can save hours of remediation time while creating a better experience for everyone. Note: For Rob's layer shortcut, he meant to say bring to front, not send to back.

People in this episode

Host: Dax Castro

Guest: Rob Underwood

Topics covered

• accessible workflow
• file management
• metadata
• heading structures
• color palettes
• alternate formats
• multi-person workflows

Keywords

• accessibility
• file management
• metadata
• color palettes
• PDF export
• remediation
• workflow

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