Re: [Athen] accessibility of InDesign for creating an ebook

[ron at ahead.org]

The best route to produce DAISY from InDesign is to produce it as a XHTML document which then can be brought into a compliant editor for editing and addition of alt text of the like. This functionality is fully supported in ID but therer are a couple of trick to getting a usable output.

There are artifacts from InDesign that will have to be removed from the document that are related to clean export of the document structure.  I have a reference doc I am happy to share off line.  Though it was created for ID 5.5 and things have changed a little bit.

The reason I perfer this method to a straight ePub export is that it provides a document that works with most AT, the majority of which do not support ePub3 currently

Ron Stewart


>  -------Original Message-------

>  From: Howard Kramer <hkramer.atsol at gmail.com>

>  To: Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list at u.washington.edu>

>  Subject: [Athen] accessibility of InDesign for creating an ebook

>  Sent: Sep 27 '12 13:11

>  

>  Hello All:

>  

>  

>  I have a project to create an ebook on Universal Design for Digital Media -

>  an offshoot of the online course I'm teaching. I saw a presentation on

>  InDesign at a recent conference on Academic Technology and from a visual

>  standpoint it looked like it had the capability to produce a really nice

>  product. I understand that it can produce books in an ePub and Kindle

>  (mobipocket) format. I haven't heard anything about DAISY. Does anyone

>  have any feedback on the accessibility of this design platform (InDesign

>  6). Any recommendations for different tool?

>  

>  

>  Also, I welcome collaboration from anyone who'd like to contribute to

>  the book. Let me know if you're interested and I can give you more

>  detail.

>  

>  

>  Thanks in advance.

>  

>  

>  -Howard

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