A plea to Adobe to help make Illustrator PDF's accessible
As someone who's been using Illustrator for nearly 40 years, I'm asking—no, pleading—that you make Illustrator accessibility compliant. Period.
We are now under strict government accessibility standards, and it’s becoming harder and harder to justify using Illustrator for projects when it can’t meet basic accessibility requirements like tagged text, reading order, alt text, etc. And before anyone hops on their high horse to tell me I should be using InDesign—don’t.
Illustrator is hands-down the best tool for designing posters, one-pagers, visual simplifiers, and other non-multi-page materials. It offers the flexibility, precision, and control we need. Not every document is a brochure or report.
We need accessibility features built into Illustrator.
We need to be able to export accessible PDFs directly from Illustrator.
We need Adobe to acknowledge that not all design lives in InDesign.
We need Illustrator files placed in InDesign to be compliant.
This is no longer just a nice-to-have—it’s essential for compliance, for inclusivity, and for continuing to use the tools we’ve built our workflows around for decades.
Use your AI capabilities to make documents accessible. No more 6 fingered hands, just stuff we need.
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