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From: Yamanishi, Evan
Date: Feb 5, 2015 12:55PM

I second the EPUB 3 endorsement. The ultimate accessibility of the final
product depends heavily on how the document is created and how it is
prepared for EPUB, though. And for that I recommend InDesign.

Adobe¹s accessibility articles and videos for InDesign (not updated for
the latest version, but still good)
http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/indesign.html

The Daisy guide, "Using Adobe InDesign to create accessible EPUB 3 files"
http://www.daisy.org/daisypedia/using-adobe-indesign-create-accessible-epub
-3-files


Evan Yamanishi
Media Accessibility Specialist
W. W. Norton & Company
500 5Th Avenue
New York, NY 10110




On 2/5/15, 2:18 PM, "L Snider" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>I would highly recommend looking at EPUB, version 3 only...Version 3 is,
>in
>my view, much better in terms of accessibility. It is based on HTML5 and
>has the Daisy component as well-a powerhouse format.
>
>Plus, someone just made me aware that Harper Collins just went all EPUB 3
>this month, huge thing...I believe this is where all will go eventually.
>
>This is also a good site:
>http://handbook.floeproject.org/index.php?title=Inclusive_EPUB_3
>
>Calibre is really good, but only does EPUB 2...which is too bad, because
>it
>is a great, easy to use program.
>
>As well, in terms of readers it is pretty good today. Take a look here for
>some great information:
>http://readium.org/
>
>Cheers
>
>Lisa
>
>
>Lisa Snider
>@archivesmatter
>
>
>
>
>On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 9:01 AM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> Have you tried "Accessible EPUB 3," by Matt Garrish?
>>
>> https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/accessible-
>> epub-3/9781449329297/
>>
>> Are you running into particular difficulties, or are you just looking
>>for
>> more general best practices?
>>
>> Deborah Kaplan
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 5 Feb 2015, Iza Bartosiewicz wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> Iza Bartosiewicz
>>> Library Website Coordinator
>>> RMIT University
>>>
>>> p: 99253103
>>> e: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>>> t: #Mr0wka18 <http://twitter.com/Mr0wka18>;
>>>
>>> l: www.linkedin.com/in/izabartosiewicz
>>>
>>>
>>> "The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the
>>>quality
>>> of
>>> our suffering", Tom Waits
>>> >>> >>> >>>
>>
>> --
>> >> >> >>
>>
>>>