EPUB Accessibility Using InDesign

As digital books aren't constrained to the printed page, they're a great deal more malleable than traditional publications. Ebooks—which are essentially HTML and CSS in an EPUB wrapper—can be output or altered to meet the needs of readers who use assistive technology or have a situational disability. In this course, learn how to create cleaner, more accessible ebooks using Adobe InDesign. Instructor Laura Brady provides a throrough introduction to EPUB accessibility, going over key principles, techniques, and tools that can help you manipulate InDesign to boost a book's accessibility. Laura covers how to separate style and content, improve the navigation and structure of your content, and clearly describe images. Plus, learn about making pagelists and working with tools like the Ace accessibility checker.

Learning objectives
Why incorporating accessibility is important
Why style and content need to be separate
Tricking InDesign into exporting HTML5
Building a thorough TOC
Structure in trade and academic publishing
ARIA best practices
Handling images and image descriptions
Marking print-equivalent page breaks
Defining languages
Accessibility metadata
Testing with screen readers