There are obvious benefits to creating accessible content. Your available audience grows. You avoid legal troubles. But there are also some less obvious benefits that might surprise you. Better Code Practices Imagine a simple home page or a table of contents in an ePub. This may be made up of a few simple lines of […]
Accessibility Consulting Red Flags
Digital accessibility is becoming more and more of a concern for businesses and organizations that utilize web applications or digital content. There are some obvious ethical and practical reasons behind this. And there are some very compelling legal reasons behind it as well. From the year 2017 to 2018, the number of web accessibility lawsuits […]
Digital Accessibility is a Civil Right
From a development perspective, a lot of digital accessibility boils down to best practices. Things like Semantic HTML and well-written alt-tags make it easier for other developers to read and work on your content or website. And things like captions, subtitles, and transcripts make content more versatile. Someone trying to view your video content in […]
What’s the Difference Between an eBook and an ePub?
First off, What’s an eBook? The term eBook is short for electronic book. The term refers to any book that is accessed on a digital device. That device could be an eBook reader, a mobile phone, a computer, or even a screen reader. eBooks come in a variety of different types—including the ePub type. Think […]
How Semantic HTML Tags Make Your Content Accessible
Web and Digital Content Accessibility Starts with HTML The HTML structure of a website is like a roadmap. It tells your browser where elements should go on the page and denotes the relationships of those elements with other resources, such as an external CSS stylesheet or external scripts. Just like a roadmap, your HTML can […]
What is Semantic HTML?
What exactly is Semantic HTML? Simply put, Semantic HTML refers to HTML code written using proper and descriptive tags—also known as, you guessed it, semantic tags. Instead of simply indicating the beginning of a new section or denoting which portion of a page will carry a certain tag or ID, semantic HTML tags tell us—and […]
Best Practices for Video Accessibility
For some, the presence of a video on a computer screen is… just that. A video. Information presented in the form of images and sound. For others, that video is a gap in the information accessible to them from the website, EPUB or document as a whole. You’ve put time into your message. You’ve put […]