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Ace accessibility checker

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Ace accessibility checker

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- [Instructor] If you've made it this far in the course, you are probably freaking out about all the details and tedious little things that go into making an accessible EPUB. I have some good news. There are a couple of very good tools on the market that can support your workflow habits and maybe even do some of the heavy lifting for you. The first is the Ace accessibility checker that was developed by the DAISY Consortium. This website, the accessibility-checker/getting-started is your best friend in terms of learning how to install Ace and what it will look like and then how to run it. There's also some troubleshooting tips which you will almost inevitably need because running a terminal tool is hard. Ace is a command-line tool. You'll see what that looks like in a second. I'm demoing it on a Mac via terminal. It's gonna look a little different on Windows, so just be aware of that. So I'm gonna scroll down to this piece, how to use it. This is the direction that I need to put into…

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