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Making informed design choices across product

The RGD Accessibility Handbook is an excellent resource for all designers to expand their knowledge.

Covering graphic design and digital media fundamentals, it goes into specific detail beyond typical standards of practice that may be limited to colour contrast and basic readability standards.

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The version of the handbook referenced here is version 2.1.0 from September 28, 2021. The latest version of the handbook is available at rgd.caOpens in a new window.

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Narrowing the scope of this resource to product, we would recommend focusing on the following chapters and pages:

  1. Design Fundamentals (Pages 9-18)
    1. Design for Outliers (Pages 10-12)
    2. Language Usage (Pages 13-14)
    3. Colour Usage (Pages 15-18)
  2. Typography (Pages 19-32)
    1. Typographic Accessibility (Page 20)
    2. Typeface Selection (Pages 21-26)
    3. Typesetting (Pages 27-32)
  3. Digital Media (Pages 33-66)
    1. Digital Accessibility (Pages 34-35)
    2. Semantic Structure (Page 36)
    3. Non-text Content (Pages 37-40)
    4. Principles of Web Accessibility (Pages 41-42)
    5. Practice of Web Accessibility (Pages 43-55)
    6. Testing for Web Accessibility (Pages 56-59)
    7. Office Documents (Pages 60-61)
    8. Accessible PDFs (Pages 62-66)
  4. Tools (Pages 83-84)

Let’s explore these in more detail as a primer for the RGD Accessibility PDF.