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
Introduction to Accessible Social Media Content
Ebooks are not the only digital content that benefit from accessibility! All digital content, from webpages to Facebook posts, can be inclusive and accessible. This resource provides general recommendations which apply to most of the most...
Subject(s): Digital Marketing
Resource Type(s): Checklist, Foundations and Rationale
Introduction to Image Descriptions
Including image descriptions in your ebooks and digital content hugely increases accessibility because it ensures that all readers have access to the same content. This Introduction discusses the importance of image descriptions - to your...
Subject(s): Image Descriptions
Resource Type(s): Foundations and Rationale
Who Should Create Image Descriptions
This resource discusses the options you might have for image description creators/authors. There are many different people that can potentially do this work, and deciding on a person or group is an important step!
Subject(s): Image Descriptions, Strategic Planning
Resource Type(s): Standards and Best Practices
Best Practices for Writing Image Descriptions
This Best Practices document reviews key guidelines to writing image descriptions. Whether you are a publisher, freelancer, author, or anyone else, this document will help you make decisions about how and what to describe.
Subject(s): Image Descriptions
Resource Type(s): Standards and Best Practices
Introduction to Writing Alt-text for Digital Media (other than ebooks)
Images used on websites, social media, and other non-book content need image descriptions. The writing guidelines are mostly the same, but there are a few additional things to consider. This Introduction document looks at these,...
Subject(s): Digital Marketing, Image Descriptions
Resource Type(s): Checklist
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
Image Description Examples
This document contains examples demonstrating the Best Practices and concepts explained in the "Best Practices for Writing Image Descriptions" document.
Subject(s): Image Descriptions
Resource Type(s): Step-by-Step
A Guide to Adding Image Descriptions to Your Social Media Posts
Most of the popular social media platforms allow users to add alt-text to their images. This resource provides step-by-step instructions for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
Subject(s): Digital Marketing, Image Descriptions
Resource Type(s): Standards and Best Practices, Step-by-Step
Introduction to Writing Descriptions for Complex Content
This resource introduces the concept of long/extended descriptions, and provides a general discussion of how to approach and develop them.
Subject(s): Image Descriptions
Resource Type(s): Standards and Best Practices