From the course: EPUB Accessibility Using InDesign
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Language - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: EPUB Accessibility Using InDesign
Language
- [Instructor] In order for screen readers or other kinds of assistive technology to interpret your content correctly the primary language of an e-book must be declared. From within InDesign you do this naturally via paragraph styles. It is a usual part of the type setting and layout process to declare the language of the content so that InDesign understands which hyphenation dictionaries to use, for example. So if we look at this InDesign file, we look at the base, body, paragraph style. You can see up here that it's English: USA, and when we click on the style and go to Advanced Character Formats, this is also available down here, there's a whole host of language options from within InDesign. We'll stick with the current option. When this file is exported. Let's go and look in Oxygen. It's important to keep an eye out for stray language tags that came in that we weren't paying attention to. Let's have a look at that EPUB that came out of that InDesign folder that we were just…
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