From the course: EPUB Accessibility Using InDesign
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Use HTML5 tags - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: EPUB Accessibility Using InDesign
Use HTML5 tags
- [Instructor] The integrity of your content depends entirely on using the right element for the job. Let's unpack this for a minute. Printed digital exports like InDesign are notorious for taking the path of least complexity, resulting in div span soup. Banish div tags from your personal knowledge base. Using the correct tag means that your content is then machine readable, skippable, and legible. Every HTML tag carries native semantics. It is possible to design a well made EPUB for example that has no CSS classes and minimal CSS, because all structure and meaning comes from the HTML markup. If you as an eBook developer let InDesign default to the most generic HTML tags possible, you have to allow the crutch that comes with it. Extensive classes and corresponding CSS, divs embedded in divs, span tags with no semantic meaning, such as you see in this slide. All HTML is mapped to the APIs that communicate with assistive technologies. The W3C and other standards bodies have done the…
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