The Accessibility Domino Run
EPUB is just one of many branches in a larger accessibility domino run. While this is where you may begin your efforts, it is not the only section that needs to be engineered.
Accessibility
EPUB 3.3 is here!
EPUB 3.3 is an update to the EPUB specification. Find out here what that means for your development work.
The Accessiverse: On Accessible Comics
This is a guest post from Rachel Osolen, from the National Network for Equitable Library Services (NNELS). You can find Rachel on Twitter. (Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash) During my career I have watched accessibility in publishing grow exponentially…Continue Reading →
Hanging Indents and other poetry puzzles
How do you design digital poetry in a way that maintains it’s structure while remaining agile and flexible?
Hey, Listen! Books with Audio, Audiobooks, and Everything In-Between
On the difference between audiobooks, ebooks with media overlays, and assistive technologies.
Why and How to Convert to EPUB 3
This guest post is by Nicole Lambe, an ebook devloper at House of Anansi Press in Toronto. She is a graduate of Humber College Creative Book Publishing Program, and a passionate accessibility advocate. She is on Twitter at @xnicolelambe. In…Continue Reading →
DropToScript
This article is by Matthew C.C. Chan is an ebook developer and currently the Cross-Media Assistant at House of Anansi Press/Groundwood Books in Toronto. His work involves turning typeset manuscripts into elegant, accessible ebooks for a variety of reading platforms. Interests include…Continue Reading →
Ebook Power Boost: GreenLight for Ebook Devs
In the world of ebook development, tools that support making better ebooks are hard to pick out from the tools that simply automate without adding quality. I am especially interested in tools that help make more accessible EPUBs. GreenLight from…Continue Reading →
Ebook Design Is Not an Oxymoron
Let’s talk for a moment about what an oxymoron is. It is a figure of speech in which one or two words that seemingly contradict one another appear side by side. Oxys means sharp, and moronos means dull or stupid…Continue Reading →
Access-Aide, a New EPUB Accessibility Plugin for Sigil
This is a guest post from #eprdctn old-timer, Keith Snyder from TypeFlow Books. Your Ally in #a11y My appreciation of Sigil as an EPUB editor is longstanding. I don’t use anything else—no oXygen, no Dreamweaver, nada. One of Sigil’s handy…Continue Reading →