EPUB from InDesign Cleanup (video)

This article covers how to take a raw InDesign-exported EPUB and clean it up with accessibility in mind: adding semantics, page breaks, HTML 5, clean CSS, and accessibility metadata.

Subject(s):

Ebook Production
Resource Type(s):

Step-by-Step
Audience:

Technical

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Suggested Prerequisites

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What We’ll Cover

What InDesign doesn’t do well;
Language declarations;
Overrides;
Navigation Cleanup;
ARIA role semantics (http://kb.daisy.org/publishing/docs/html/dpub-aria/index.html);
Cleaning up the CSS;
Accessibility metadata; and
Creating a pagelist.

Supplementary Materials

Download the accessibility code and the test EPUB here.

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Next Steps

1

Preparing a Book for Conversion

Ebook Workflow Guide: In-house Production of Born-Accessible Ebooks

To prepare a book for conversion, with accessibility in mind, the steps covered in Ebook Workflow Guide: In-house Production of Born Accessible Ebooks should be followed (if you use Word and InDesign for your manuscript…

Subject(s): Ebook Production

Resource Type(s): Standards and Best Practices, Step-by-Step

Audience:

Technical

2

Reviewing the Produced Ebook

Guide for Reviewing Image Descriptions

This guide shares a short checklist of items to review when reading or editing image descriptions. Whether you wrote them yourself, or someone else wrote them, this guide will help ensure the quality of descriptions.

Subject(s): Digital Marketing, Ebook Production, Image Descriptions, Website Accessibility

Resource Type(s): Checklist, Standards and Best Practices

Audience:

Non-technical

3

Final Quality Assurance (QA) Pass

Accessible Audiobook Production: General Recording Notes

This resource discusses some general technical guidelines that can be used when planning out audiobook production and post-production.

Subject(s): Audiobook Production

Resource Type(s): Standards and Best Practices

Audience:

Technical

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