Overview
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Learn how to create cleaner, more accessible ebooks using Adobe InDesign.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Why incorporating accessibility is important
- A business case for incorporating accessibility
- EPUB 3 vs. EPUB 2
- Introducing the big 10 of EPUB accessibility
- Why style and content need to be separate
- Use HTML5 tags
- Tricking InDesign into exporting HTML5
- Edit all export tags
- Semantic HTML for character styles
- Subcategory: CSS
- Why navigation is important
- Building a thorough TOC
- Build supplemental lists
- Build a full set of landmarks
- Structure as a main focus of accessibility checkers
- Structure in trade and academic publishing
- Semantics, ARIA roles, and accessibility
- ARIA best practices
- Adding ARIA roles
- Handling and avoiding text-as-image
- InDesign table export
- Using a table summary
- Using tables to control formatting
- Describing your images
- Keeping your images in your InDesign archive
- Describing images via hyperlink
- When not to describe an image
- Further notes on image descriptions
- Marking print-equivalent page breaks
- PageStaker
- EPUBOgrify script
- Language
- Language shifts
- Required accessibility metadata
- Optional accessibility metadata
- Ace accessibility checker
- Sigil: Access-Aide plugin
- GreenLight
- Resources
- Testing
- Wrap up
