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Introducing the {pdfcheck} R package for checking the accessibility of PDFs
February 5, 2026
Are the PDFs you're creating accessible? Can someone using a screen reader navigate them? Is the color contrast sufficient for people who are colorblind? These are questions we've been getting a lot from our consulting clients at Clarity Data Studio. And honestly? When we reviewed our own PDFs, we found there wasn't a really great tool to check accessibility and give us actionable steps to improve. So we decided to build our own. It's called {pdfcheck}, and it's an R package that helps you...
[Livestream Recording] How to Make High-Quality PDFs with Quarto and Typst
November 20, 2025
Last week, we released our massive blog post on making report templates using Quarto and Typst. R for the Rest of Us consultant Joseph Barbier and I did a livestream yesterday where we went over several questions submitted to us on this topic. In the livestream we covered several topics, including: Making complex elements that we used in the state-level immunization reports we recently created for the Johns Hopkins University International Vaccine Access Center. Taking a Typst template and...
How to Make High-Quality PDFs with Quarto and Typst
November 12, 2025
In our consulting work at Clarity Data Studio, many clients come to us for support making highly-branded PDF reports. I spoke about how we make these reports in my 2024 posit::conf talk Report Design in R: Small Tweaks that Make a Big Difference. In the last couple years, we’ve moved to Typst almost exclusively for making PDFs. Of the two promises that Typst makes (powerful and easy to learn), we agree with the first. The second, however, a bit less so. The Typst website has great...