Re: accessible epub

Bryan,

If you could export from Pages to a more common word processor like MS 
Word or Open Office, we could produce an accessible ePub version.

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bryan rasmussen wrote on 7/8/2022 2:00 PM:
> 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

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