PDFs a screen reader can actually read.
From an InDesign file or a finished PDF, I prepare documents that blind and low-vision readers can navigate. Correct reading order, headings, image descriptions, tables and working links. Verified in Adobe Acrobat against WCAG and PDF/UA.
Why it’s worth doing
It’s required
Public bodies across the EU have had to publish accessible documents since 2019. Since June 2025, the European Accessibility Act extends this to banks, insurers, telecoms, e-commerce and transport.
People read them
Blind and low-vision users, people using a screen reader on their phone, older readers. To them an untagged PDF is just a pile of words in no particular order.
The design stays
Accessibility lives beneath the surface of the document. Layout, typography and images stay exactly as the designer made them.
For studios, companies and the public sector
Studios and agencies
Designing annual reports, brochures or catalogues? Send me the InDesign package and I’ll deliver the accessible PDF under your name. Your client never needs to know I was involved.
From InDesign · white-labelCompanies
Terms and conditions, price lists, annual reports, employee handbooks. I can fix finished PDFs even when the source file is long gone.
From an existing PDFPublic sector
Authorities, municipalities, schools and hospitals that must publish accessible documents under the EU Web Accessibility Directive (in Czechia, Act No. 99/2019).
InDesign or PDFWhat you get
The finished PDF, the updated source file (when I have it) and an accessibility report you can pass on.
- Reading order, page by page
- Heading structure H1–H4
- Alt text for images
- Tables with header cells
- Working links and navigation buttons
- Bookmarks and table of contents
- Document language and title
- Decoration hidden from screen readers
- Language versions of the document
- Adobe Acrobat report
How it works
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Send the document
A packaged InDesign file or a PDF. Within [X] business days you’ll get a price and a deadline.
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Audit
I review images, tables, links and reading order. Image descriptions come to you for approval.
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Remediation
I set up the structure directly in InDesign or fix the tags in the PDF. The look doesn’t change.
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Testing and handover
Tested in Adobe Acrobat and with a screen reader. You get the PDF, the source and the report.
Benefits guide for a US employer
An interactive 44-page employee guide, delivered through a creative studio in the US. Full structure in InDesign, navigation buttons on every page, a linked table of contents and cross-references between chapters. After translation, I set up the Spanish edition too.
- Pages
- 44
- Languages
- EN, ES
- Links
- 120+
- Errors in check
- 0
- Standard
- ADA / WCAG 2.1 AA, Adobe Acrobat Full Check
Indicative pricing
Audit
from [PRICE]
I review the document and send a list of issues with recommendations.
Remediation from InDesign
from [PRICE] / page
The cleanest route. Accessibility stays in the file for future versions.
Remediation of an existing PDF
from [PRICE] / page
When there’s no source file. Price depends on tables and images.
Common questions
- What does white-label mean?
- I work as your subcontractor. You deliver the accessible PDF to your client under your own name; I stay out of the picture.
- Will the document look different?
- No. I change the structure a screen reader reads, not what the eye sees.
- Isn’t Acrobat’s auto-tagging enough?
- For simple text, sometimes. With columns, boxes and tables, auto-tagging scrambles the reading order, and it can’t write image descriptions.
- Do you work with other languages?
- Yes. I work in English and Czech, and after translation I check other language editions too.
Tony Jumr, designer in Prague
For over eight years I’ve designed brand identities, websites and print for clients in Czechia and the US. So I know documents from both sides: how they’re built in InDesign, and what happens when a screen reader opens them.
For accessibility work I wrote my own InDesign scripts. They check reading order, headings, alt text, links and language versions, so every review is fast and equally thorough.
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