Demonstrating with a real-world project and including live demonstrations of InDesign features and their impact on the user, Kevin Callahan and Rachel Comerford will provide a roadmap for simply accessible ebooks.
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You know a beautifully designed ebook when you see it, and you’ve got the chops to show us how it’s done.
If styles in InDesign confuse you, or you just need to master them, this session is for you!
The struggle to create standard CSS for a wide range of textbooks that establishes a standard schema, validates for consistent structure, handles complex layouts, and adheres to accessibility guidelines.
When you aim for accessibility, you’re guaranteed to hear about WAI-ARIA. But what is ARIA? When do you use it — and more important, when don’t you?
NNELS will show you what they do to make a book accessible and demonstrate how EPUB files behave when they’re not accessible.
Handling equations in ebooks is a pain point when dealing with STEM content. Luckily, there are open-source tools that try to pragmatically solve this problem for the web.
In addition to a general overview of ebook testing and support at Kobo, this presentation provides some historical context for how processes and reading platforms have evolved at Kobo over the years.
About three years ago, Rachel Comerford began two digital journeys: interpreting, applying, and developing ebook standards; and online dating.
Tzviya Siegman (Wiley) offers an in-depth overview of the publishing activity at W3C. Karen Myers (W3C) highlights several standards and areas of interest that affect publishing.
If you’ve ever wanted to know more about the people you design ebooks for, you won’t want to miss this presentation.
Wiley began experimenting with shifting from XML-first to HTML-first for a subset of their online journals. Hear about the challenges and the fun along the way.