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Unlike InDesign, which has tagging features for paragraph/character styles, the ability to add alt text to images, an articles pane for building in reading order, and export options that include adding the accessibility tags into a pdf, Adobe Illustrator has ZERO tools for building accessible pdfs. All government documents are needing to be updated by April 2026 to meet accessibility requirements and Illustrator has been my go-to program for designing one-pager, highly graphic materials for the last 11 years in my job at the University of Nebraska. I literally have thousands of designs that will need updated from Adobe Acrobat (which is a total pain to build accessibility) and should the designs ever need an update down the road, I'll have to redo all of the hard work to make the exported pdf from Adobe Illustrator accessible all over again.
My requests for accessibility tools within Adobe Illustrator are as follows:
• Articles pane
• The ability to right click on an an image and add alt text
• The ability to assign tags (H1-H6, p, etc.) to paragraph and character styles
• The option to export pdf with set tags, reading order, and alt text
Not adding these features to Adobe Illustrator will eventually make the application obsolete, because this is a new law taking effect in April 2026 that all pdfs meet accessibility requirements for any material created by state or government agencies.