EPUB Accessibility Using InDesign

Learn how to create cleaner, more accessible ebooks using Adobe InDesign.

Introduction

• Why incorporating accessibility is important
• A business case for incorporating accessibility
• EPUB 3 vs. EPUB 2
• Introducing the big 10 of EPUB accessibility

1. Separate Style and Content

• 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

2. Navigation

• Why navigation is important
• Building a thorough TOC
• Build supplemental lists
• Build a full set of landmarks

3. Structure

• Structure as a main focus of accessibility checkers
• Structure in trade and academic publishing

4. Semantics and ARIA Roles

• Semantics, ARIA roles, and accessibility
• ARIA best practices
• Adding ARIA roles

5. Images

• Handling and avoiding text-as-image
• InDesign table export
• Using a table summary
• Using tables to control formatting

6. Image Descriptions

• 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

7. Pagelist

• Marking print-equivalent page breaks
• PageStaker
• EPUBOgrify script

8. Define Languages

• Language
• Language shifts

9. A11Y Metadata

• Required accessibility metadata
• Optional accessibility metadata

10. Tools

• Ace accessibility checker
• Sigil: Access-Aide plugin
• GreenLight
• Resources

Conclusion

• Testing
• Wrap up