RE: accessible epub

Hi,

 

Any chance you could use the WordToEPUB tool? Daisy.org/wordtoepub

 

It does a great job and the HTML is clean.

 

Best

George

 

 

From: bryan rasmussen <rasmussen.bryan@gmail.com> 
Sent: Friday, July 8, 2022 3:00 PM
To: WAI IG <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Subject: accessible epub

 

So, I have a book I was writing and I used Pages to format it. Then I generated the Epub naively expecting Pages would do a reasonable job of making the epub accessible. But it didn't, and I do not have the extra time to fix it (it's a side project, I really do not have the month that it would take to fix the awful XHTML that Pages generates, in fact whenever I look at the markup I think it would be easier to rewrite it all by hand, or even create my own framework)

 

It would be easier for me to provide a screen reader only version of the document, that is to say unformatted since it is the formatting that mainly has created the problems. Does anyone have any suggestions for this - especially regarding platform discoverability - can it just be that I specify in metadata for one that it is an accessible version and the other one that it is not accessible? 

 

Thanks, 

Bryan Rasmussen