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Handling and avoiding text-as-image - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: EPUB Accessibility Using InDesign
Handling and avoiding text-as-image
- [Instructor] At long last we get to the question of images. Describing them, avoiding them when possible and how to keep all the parts of your E-book as accessible as possible to all kinds of readers. The first lesson of images in E-books is this, don't use an image where text will do. Setting something like a complex table, for example, as an image addresses a situational disability, the inability to view an entire table at once by creating another disability, limited visual access to the content. That's Matt Garrish again. Give your readers the credit to understand the limitations their devices impose and give them the flexibility to find other ways to read. So, with all your weight and might, avoid setting text as image. There was a time when lots of tables were set as images because readers couldn't go more than three columns wide or complex tables just wouldn't render well in various reading systems, but I think those times are done. Wherever possible, you could rethink tabular…
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