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EPUB Accessibility Using InDesign

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Adobe InDesign Courses Computer Science Courses Semantic Web Courses Accessibility Courses HTML5 Courses Digital Publishing Courses

Course Description

Overview

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

Syllabus

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

Taught by

Laura Brady

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