INDD to Daisy (Digital Accessible Information System)

[matheus.zati]

Hello Adobe community,

First of all, I want TO say thank you for all THE support. The community HAS ALWAYS BEEN awesome with me and gAve me good answers about my questions.

So, this is the thing. I`m a BRAZILIAN editorial designer – (se algum dos amigos for do Brasil, um salve e conto com vocês nessa luta). I work as many designers here in BR L, with didactic books, and this work IS oriented L, documentED AND emitted by our government – IT'S callED PNLD (National Program of Didactic Books in free translation).

Well, this year, the government indicated a necessity of a HTML and/or EpuB format of the book. This products may have to be Daisy (Daisy Digital Accessible Information System) converted.

I need tips and orientarion for how construct an Indd archive who easily can be converted for a Daisy archive. There is something I can setup to help the exportation process?

Whats the better way to construct editorial didactic book with this final exportation setup include?

Like, is better make all the content in one text thread or break the content in spread?

Someone can indicate a tutorial or more explanation about this subject?

Virtual kisses and hugs for everybody.

[Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com]

@matheus.zati  Hi!

First, DAISY is the precursor to today's EPUB. So EPUB shouldn't need any further convertion to work with DAISY.

You should become familiar with the latest EPUB standards at https://www.w3.org/publishing/epub3/epub-overview.html. As you'll see, folks from the DAISY Consortium were part of the standard's development.

RE: tutorials, you'll need to learn how to build accessible InDesign layouts that you'll then export to EPUB (and also accessible PDF if you want). Last fall, the InDesign Accessibility Summit had several of us experts give presentations over 2 days on all facets of accessibility from InDesign, and Laura Brady was the expert talking specifically about EPUB. Try to catch the recorded video sessions at  https://creativepro.com/indesign-accessibility-summit

Note: Do not make a "fixed layout" EPUB because it is not accessible. You want a regular, reflowable EPUB that will adjust for the end user's device. You also will need to do a small amount of tweaking of the HTML code in the EPUB. Laura's video session above reviews that. Since EPUB is a variation of HTML, you or someone you'll work with needs to make minor adjustments to the EPUB's HTML and CSS.

Like, is better make all the content in one text thread or break the content in spread?

By @matheus.zati

It depends on your subject matter. If it's a short brochure or booklet, one thread might work. But if it's a longer book, then break up the text threads by chapter. But there's no one way to do this that works for all types of publications.

Definitely do not break the threads by page or by spread...that negatively affects the accessibility and reflow of the EPUB (or PDF, too).  Articles are threaded based on their content, and text threads break at logical places in the layout.

Hope this helps get you started!