https://vast.guide 2026-03-17 daily 1.0 https://vast.guide/assets/images/image35.png Logo for VAST Guides. A stroke of colour springs forth from a tag, connecting four capital letters V, A, S and T, before ending in an arrow pointing forwards. Clickable link leads to home page. https://vast.guide/assets/images/image33.jpg Create:Inclusion logo, which is "Create semicolon Inclusion" in white text below a thin white line, against a blue background. https://vast.guide/assets/images/image01.jpg A screenshot of the TAGS (Tabletop & Graphic Storytelling) Festival website, with its code being inspected in an adjacent window. https://vast.guide/assets/images/image02.jpg A side by side close up of a paragraph of text from the previous example, displaying both its website version and its code. https://vast.guide/assets/images/image05.jpg A side by side comparison of Twitter open in two browsers. The first is very wide, using a desktop layout; it has a sidebar with labelled icons, such as home, explore and notifications. The second is very thin, using the mobile layout; the text labels are https://vast.guide/assets/images/image03.jpg A side by side comparison the same PDF. On the left its display is unaltered, showing 3 A5 spreads, each with images and text wrapped to fit around each other. On the right the PDF is reflowed, showing a much larger copy of the the first page's header, ima https://vast.guide/assets/images/image04.jpg A side by side comparison of the same PDF from the previous example. On the left it is zoomed in, and words are clipped off and out of context. On the right it is reflowed, and the same text is large, legible, and in a sensible reading order. https://vast.guide/assets/images/image07.jpg A screenshot of a PDF with it's tags on display. A H2 tag is selected, and the relevant heading in the PDF is highlighted. https://vast.guide/assets/images/image08.jpg A screenshot of a PDF with it's tags on display. A P tag is selected. A corresponding paragraph is highlighted, with each of the paragraph's lines separate. The start of the paragraph, a large capital T, is also highlighted. https://vast.guide/assets/images/image16.gif GIF, showing highlighted examples of List, List Item, Label, and List Body tags in a PDF. https://vast.guide/assets/images/image10.jpg A screenshot of the TAGS fest website with is code being inspected. An image tag is highlighted, with its alt attribute circled. https://vast.guide/assets/images/image11.jpg A screenshot of an image in an itch.io product page, with circles and labels around its mouse over title, and its caption https://vast.guide/assets/images/image12.jpg Screenshot of a PDF being viewed in Adobe Acrobat Pro. Its tags are open, a Figure is highlighted, and its alt text is on display in the Object Properties panel. https://vast.guide/assets/images/image23.jpg Screenshot of two tables exemplifying the qualities from the previous list. The first table is simple, and details level up thresholds for different classes. The seconds table is complex, and details random encounters across multiple zones, and features me https://vast.guide/assets/images/image15.gif Animated GIF of a an example table open in a PDF. It's tags are being examined, and each frame shows a different tag being highlighted, and the content in the table it corresponds to. https://vast.guide/assets/images/image32.jpg Screenshot of a the Table Cell Properties window from Adobe Acrobat DC. Inside of the Type group are radio buttons for Header or Data cells, and a field titled Scope. Inside of the Attributes group are 4 fields: Row Span, Column Span, ID and Associated Hea https://vast.guide/assets/images/image17.jpg Example 1. Diagram of a table with 4 columns and 7 rows, labelled Encounters. The first column and seventh row are highlighted. This table is repeated in the next three examples. https://vast.guide/assets/images/image18.jpg Example 2. The same base table, but with rows 1 through 7 highlighted. Down each column the appropriate TH or TD cells are labelle, and numbered for columns 1 through 4. https://vast.guide/assets/images/image30.jpg Example 3. In the original table some cells are merged; those cells are highlighted here, with their row and column span values noted. https://vast.guide/assets/images/image31.jpg Example 4. The final version of this table. It contains the same content, but wherever a merged cell was, the content has migrated to the top-left most cell and the remaining cells are shaded in grey. https://vast.guide/assets/images/image06.jpg Screenshot of InDesign's Paragraph Style Options panel, open on the Export Tagging tab. The "EPUB and HTML", and "PDF" fields are highlighted. https://vast.guide/assets/images/image09.jpg A screenshot of a The One Ring's Strider Mode PDF. https://vast.guide/assets/images/gallery16/ecd8d8b6.jpg One Ring Example 2. https://vast.guide/assets/images/image13.jpg Cropped screenshot of a project banner for Carved in Stone, with differently sized titles, body text, and a pre-order button. https://vast.guide/assets/images/image14.jpg Cropped screenshot of the same banner from the previous example, but altered so that it doesn't have differently sized headers. https://vast.guide/assets/images/gallery02/04c891ec.jpg Step 3 Example. https://vast.guide/assets/images/image20.jpg Example of nested lists. Three classes (Cleric, Fighter and Wizard) are in a list, and each class has subclasses nested underneath (E.g. Cleric has Dedicated, Inquisitors and Paladins). https://vast.guide/assets/images/image22.jpg A screenshot of a series of nested lists open in InDesign. Adjacent to the lists is the Paragraph Styles panel. https://vast.guide/assets/images/image21.jpg A PDF having its tags examined in Adobe Acrobat Pro. The same nested list from the previous example is being examined. A nested list (1a, 1b, 1c) is shown to be placed inside of the tag for a main list (1, 2, 3). https://vast.guide/assets/images/image19.jpg Screenshot of two nested lists. The first has unclear labels (1, a, b, c, 2, a, b, c). The second has clear labels (1, 1a, 1b, 1c, 2, 2a, 2b, 2c). https://vast.guide/assets/images/gallery01/d776588e.jpg Nested Lists 1 https://vast.guide/assets/images/gallery01/e6d3ca66.jpg Nested Lists 2 https://vast.guide/assets/images/gallery03/23ea7420.jpg Applying Alt Text https://vast.guide/assets/images/gallery03/567c84cd.jpg Object Export Options https://vast.guide/assets/images/gallery04/1a3a0284.jpg Artefact Tags Example. https://vast.guide/assets/images/image24.jpg Screenshot of two tables, titled Forest Encounters and Loch Encounters. The left-hand Forest Encounters is actually a tab separated list. The right-hand Loch Encounters is a simple table. https://vast.guide/assets/images/image25.jpg Screenshot of a complex table, displayed regularly on the left, and reflowed on the right. The right hand table has many segments of its information collapsed in on itself, and it impossible to read accurately. https://vast.guide/assets/images/gallery05/abdaa425.jpg Create Table Panel. https://vast.guide/assets/images/gallery13/02858681.jpg Table of Contents https://vast.guide/assets/images/gallery17/edf28614.jpg Getting to the File Information panel. https://vast.guide/assets/images/gallery17/8c40275c.jpg File Information panel. https://vast.guide/assets/images/gallery10/56b48564.jpg Selecting Text https://vast.guide/assets/images/gallery10/630dc895.jpg Hyperlinks Panel https://vast.guide/assets/images/gallery11/4ae20bb3.jpg Selecting text for text anchors https://vast.guide/assets/images/gallery11/3b822e64.jpg New Hyperlink Destination https://vast.guide/assets/images/gallery12/f9c6876c.jpg New Cross References https://vast.guide/assets/images/gallery12/72043865.jpg Cross Reference Formats https://vast.guide/assets/images/gallery09/e3f31844.jpg Bookmarks Panel https://vast.guide/assets/images/gallery14/bf20b85f.jpg File Types https://vast.guide/assets/images/gallery14/caa80414.jpg Create Tagged PDFs https://vast.guide/assets/images/gallery14/acb65fe8.jpg Accessibility Options https://vast.guide/assets/images/gallery15/91e4d15c.jpg Example PDF https://vast.guide/assets/images/image27.jpg Cropped screenshot from Adobe Acrobat DC, showing the Accessibility Tags panel. https://vast.guide/assets/images/image28.jpg The same PDF from the previous graphics, with it tags selected and relevant visual content highlighted. https://vast.guide/assets/images/image29.jpg The same PDF from the previous graphics, with a single figure tag open and its content selected; the corresponding graphic is highlighted in the visual display. https://vast.guide/assets/images/image26.jpg The same PDF from the previous graphics. A Figure tag has its context menu open, with the Properties option highlighted. Next to the menu is the Object Properties panel, open on the Tag tab. https://vast.guide/assets/images/image36.jpg A different PDF, with a list on display. The list has a hollowed out circle as its bullet point. The list's Label tags is being inspected, with its Actual Text field circled; inside is a standard unicode bullet point character. https://vast.guide/assets/images/image34.jpg Screenshot of a list with many list items, and each list item is opened to show label and list body tags. Several label tags are selected, and in an adjacent object properties panel a bullet point has been entered into the actual text field. https://vast.guide/assets/images/gallery07/4afb5d75.jpg Setting up Articles Panel https://vast.guide/assets/images/gallery08/7be0d420.jpg Creating Articles https://vast.guide/assets/images/gallery06/4536a4ee.jpg Creating Anchors