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Annual report for Kidney Research UK
Brief
To design Kidney Research UK’s annual report for 2023/24 in accessible PDF format. The opening section would also be printed as their Impact Report.
Response
The design of Kidney Research’s publications is lively and vibrant – something I wanted to retain while ensuring the ease of reading and use essential to visual accessibility.
The report contains pie charts showing income and expenditure, which I presented with direct segment labels (rather than a key) in order to minimise cognitive load. The segments are separated with white to make the boundaries clear and the artwork is set up to allow a screen reader to access all the information.
Listen to ‘Where the money is spent’ (read by NVDA)
During remediation, I reviewed both reading orders and remediated the extensive financial tables. I also implemented a solution for the occasional use of white text to allow it to remain readable on reflow.
Finally, I ensured that the PDF passed PAC24 programmatic checks for PDF/UA compliance and read correctly in the NVDA screen reader.