From the course: EPUB Accessibility Using InDesign
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Describing your images - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: EPUB Accessibility Using InDesign
Describing your images
- [Instructor] At last, we're at the meat and potatoes of accessibility. I bet you thought this course would be three hours about describing images, didn't you? This is a little bit because this should be accessibility 101 and we should be way beyond that. The evidence from the trenches tells me that we're not. So, describe your images. It's important. Readers consume content in a wide variety of ways. I watch TV with the captions on because I'm a reader. It annoys me when the captions are sloppy, but I'm merely annoyed, not fully prevented from understanding the content. By not describing your images, you are leaving out an important chunk of your readership. Who writes the ALT text? Editors, copy editors, production managers, or outsourcers. It should be someone with an editorial investment in the content. Instructions to illustrators for example make really good ALT text. In my experience, this is often left to eBook developers and this seems to me to be a shame not because eBook…
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