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From: Iza Bartosiewicz
Date: Feb 5, 2015 12:12AM

Hi,

Does anyone here have experience in publishing accessible e-books? I would
be grateful for advice, particularly around the best software for creating
e-books and some tried and tested guidelines.

Here are just some resources I've found already:

Sopherism software
https://github.com/Jbprod/Sopherim

Oxygen software
http://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_author.html

Accessible e-Readers: e-book formats
http://www.accessiq.org/news/news/2014/05/accessible-e-readers-e-book-formats

EPUB 3 accessibility guidelines/checklist
http://www.idpf.org/accessibility/guidelines/
Checklist might be handy:
http://www.idpf.org/accessibility/guidelines/content/qa/qa-checklist.php

Top Tips for Creating Accessible EPUB 3 Files and an e-book sample
http://diagramcenter.org/54-9-tips-for-creating-accessible-epub-3-files.html
http://diagramcenter.org/standards-and-practices/accessible-image-sample-book.html

Accessibility and eBooks – Resources and an Interview
http://www.libraries.wright.edu/noshelfrequired/2010/10/06/accessibility-and-ebooks-resources-and-an-interview/

Accessibility from the publisher's perspective
http://www.editeur.org/files/Events pdfs/Accessibility Seminars/Chris
Rogers.pdf

DAISY / EPUB 3 Developments (collection of links)
http://www.daisy.org/daisy-epub-3-developments

Thanks in advance

Iza


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RMIT University

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