Purdue University College of Agriculture
A publication template built for many authors
Purdue Extension publishes fact sheets and guides written by specialists across the state. I redesigned the template the College of Agriculture now uses, so each new publication looks like part of one family and comes out of InDesign ready to be made accessible.
- Publication design
- InDesign templates
- English and Spanish
- PDF accessibility
The ask
One look, many authors, two languages
The college needed a template that kept its look consistent across authors and topics, worked in English and Spanish, and held up when the finished PDF had to meet WCAG 2.1 AA.
What I did
- Designed the page system: masthead, gold ribbon, headline and body styles, sidebars and tables
- Built paragraph, character, table and object styles so authors apply structure rather than formatting
- Mapped every style to a PDF tag, so headings, lists and tables export with meaning
- Set up Spanish editions with the correct language settings
Languages
2
Standard
WCAG 2.1 AA
PAC errors
0
The result
The template the college uses today
The template is in use across the Health and Human Sciences series. Publications built on it, including HHS-819-W and the bilingual HHS-790-W and HHS-841-W, pass PAC 2026 with zero PDF/UA failures.
2020 edition and 2026 edition
