Accessibility
Accessibility is a measure of how well people who are visually impaired can consume the contents of a book (or website and so on). See Also: About Book Features.
For ePUB books, there are accessibility standards to help ensure consistently accessible books are available for the visually impaired.
Bloom provides tools and controls so you can make and identify accessible books.
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Image Description Tool - You can write a description of each image. -
Talking Book Tool - You can make an audio recording of the words on each page, including the image descriptions. -
Impairment Visualizer - You can have Bloom simulate how your images would appear to people with various visual impairments. -
Bloom Accessibility Checker - This checker compares your book to an accessibility checklist and lists any problem it finds. If Ace is installed, its automated checker searches the ePUB generated by Bloom for violations.
Accessibility
These accessibility controls are in the in the Publish tab when ePUB is selected:
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Include image descriptions on page
This check box is only available for the ePUB Mode Flowable.
Select (
) this check box to make an ePUB in which the image descriptions actually appear on the pages.
This is a way to make the recorded audio of the image descriptions available to visually impaired readers, and it may also be helpful to visually impaired readers.
It may, however, be distracting or annoying to sighted readers. At this time, the only way to deal with that is to make two separate publications; one with () and another without (
) image descriptions on the page.
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Accessibility Checker
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Book Metadata
Click the Book Metadata hyperlink to see and enter book metadata in the Book Metadata dialog box.
Related Topics
Bloom Accessibility Checker dialog box
Related Internet Sites
https://brailleworks.com/what-is-a11y/
https://benetech.org/our-work/Born-Accessible/
http://kb.DAISY.org/publishing/
https://inclusivepublishing.org/toolbox/Accessibility-Checker/