Graphic Design
Clear and effective printed brochures, reports and business documents designed to help you sell, explain and interact with your target audience.
Clear & effective design for print & accessible PDF
Build trust and credibility for your organisation with publications that are easier for your target audience to read, understand and act upon.
Design services
Accessible PDF
Open up your reports, strategies and policies to the broadest possible audience, with user-friendly design in an accessible PDF format that passes PAC 2024 and human checks for PDF/UA and WCAG conformance.
Accessible PDF services
Typesetting
When you already have a design but need a set of text-rich documents creating in the same format.
Who I’ve worked for…
FREE introduction to preparing content for accessible PDF
Accessible PDFs can feel daunting if you’re accustomed to producing content for printed publications. This brief introduction covers seven key aspects, and has a handy checklist of things your designer will need.
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Latest thoughts on graphic design, typography & accessible PDF
Accessible PDF heading structure and the problem of phantom headings
One of the most common questions I’m asked about preparing content for accessible PDF is about document structure and specifically the hierarchy of headings. In this post I answer that question with the help of an imaginary department store, and explain how ‘phantom’ headings create some of the confusion.
Accessible colour contrast for text
We publish content to communicate a message – to explain or inform, sell a product or service, or keep people safe. But your audience will not receive your message if they cannot read it. This blog post looks specifically at colour contrast for text.
How we can work together on accessible PDFs
You are probably familiar with the project process for creating printed documents. The process for producing accessible PDFs is similar but with crucial differences that will affect your project schedule and budget, so it is well worth understanding in advance.