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Artifacting InDesign objects

Artifacting InDesign objects

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Artifacting InDesign objects

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- [Narrator] In some documents, especially ones that are highly designed, imagery and graphics are often used strictly for aesthetic reasons. Elements like these really don't serve any purpose in the document nor have any value. So for these elements, we can prevent them from being read by assistive technology, by artifacting them. Let's take a look at how to do that in, InDesign. I've decided that this large image on the front cover, maybe I don't really want it to be read. Maybe it doesn't really have any value in the context of the document. I mean after all, this is an employee manual. And so how useful is it for me to describe different flavors of olive oil in a document such as this? So if I wanted to artifact this, what I can do is, I'm going to come up here with this selected, to the object menu, and I'm going to choose object export options. And previously I've added Alt Text to this. So I'm going to delete…

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