Using InDesign Tool to Develop an Accessible Interactive EPUB 3: A Case Study

Barbara Leporini, Luca Minardi, Gregorio Pellegrino

2019

Abstract

EPUB (Electronic Publication) is a format primarily used for digital books. EPUB 3 is based on the Open Web Platform, HTML, CSS and JavaScript. In short, EPUB content can be considered as a web interface. Thus, existing accessibility guidelines and techniques can be applied in order to obtain an accessible eBook. In our study, we investigate if popular editing tools are sufficiently mature to support the authors in designing interactive and multimedia EPUB 3 fully accessible via assistive technology like screen readers. To this purpose, in this work, the Adobe InDesign tool has been used to prepare an interactive EPUB 3 prototype as a case study. Our aim was to analyze whether the InDesign tool was able to support authors in getting a fully accessible interactive EPUB 3. The results revealed that accessibility is not fully guaranteed directly by the tool: some additional steps are required by the authors or professional operators.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Leporini B., Minardi L. and Pellegrino G. (2019). Using InDesign Tool to Develop an Accessible Interactive EPUB 3: A Case Study.In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-386-5, pages 396-403. DOI: 10.5220/0008366603960403

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist19,
author={Barbara Leporini and Luca Minardi and Gregorio Pellegrino},
title={Using InDesign Tool to Develop an Accessible Interactive EPUB 3: A Case Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2019},
pages={396-403},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008366603960403},
isbn={978-989-758-386-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - Using InDesign Tool to Develop an Accessible Interactive EPUB 3: A Case Study
SN - 978-989-758-386-5
AU - Leporini B.
AU - Minardi L.
AU - Pellegrino G.
PY - 2019
SP - 396
EP - 403
DO - 10.5220/0008366603960403