Tag: editorial

Literary Image Description Best Practices Guide

Learn strategies for writing expressive image descriptions while maintaining current accessibility best practices.

Subject(s): Image Descriptions
Resource Type(s): Standards and Best Practices
Audience:
Introduction

Introduction to Born-Accessible Ebook Production

Creating born-accessible books in-house requires a commitment to accessibility, and an eagerness to learn. This brief Introduction discusses how a publisher can begin strategizing and planning for this goal.

Subject(s): Ebook Production, Strategic Planning
Resource Type(s): Foundations and Rationale
Audience:
Introduction

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

Word Styles (video)

Learn Word styles and how to prepare manuscript files for layout software, making the typesetting and ebook conversion process easier.

Subject(s): Ebook Production
Resource Type(s): Step-by-Step
Audience:
Introduction

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
Audience:
Introduction

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
Audience:
Non-technical

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
Audience:
Non-technical

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