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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: May 13, 2010 8:27AM

For authoring, Adobe InDesign provides this support, and we are in the process of authoring a guide to creating accessible ePub documents with InDesign (and what other tools are needed since InDesign doesn't currently do everything that is needed for this).

You can test epub for visual appearance with Adobe Digital Editions, but this viewing tool is not currently accessible to assistive technology users, although we are planning to release a version by the end of the year that is.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems

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On a related note:

I have been considering moving some of my books into EPUB format for some of the on-line devices such as iPad and Kindle. Have been evaluating tools that make that process easier. Jury still out on which is the de-facto "best" of the bunch.

Have even considered doing the hand-coded XML route... but would still need a compatible viewer to test the output. While Amazon has been open with their Kindle API, have not seen much on the iPad bookstore model.

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