Adding semantic markup

- Adding semantic markup for accessibility.…It sounds very geeky, doesn't it.…But actually all it means is adding a few…behind-the-scenes tags, kind of like meta information,…to parts of your book before you export it to EPUB,…that make it easier for people with visual problems…to read the e-book with a screen reader.…It also future proofs, to some extent, your EPUBs.…Meaning that as technology advances and…EPUB readers are able to dig in to this kind of…varied meta information, they could add more features,…assuming that you remembered to add that meta information.…

So that's what semantic markup means,…it means adding meta information identifying…parts of your e-book,…and accessibility refers to making it easier…for people with visual problems to read the e-book.…There are a number of ways that we can add…semantic markup in InDesign,…and a couple of them I want to talk about in this video.…One you may have already noticed.…When you export an InDesign file to EPUB,…in Adobe Digital Editions, you have been…seeing this little section called Landmarks.…