Thanks all who helped out with my previous query -- much appreciated.
Here's one that's making me scratch my head, and again it might elicit a number of different opinions which I'll gratefully hear. But it doesn't need to get too deep!
A client wants an "accesible ePub" of one of their childrens' books for World Book Day.
The book is "just words", not too long, simply written, no fancy formatting, just ten short chapters.
They've been told that the eBook needs to be ePub3 format (fine) but I kind of think that this is the WBD guys making sure that any books with images in have alt descriptions etc etc.
From what I understand, there are some metadata flags for various "accssibility" things in ePub3 --
so just what constitutes "accessible"? (they asked, no reply).
But if it's "just words" then why would ePub3 be better than ePub2? Nothng to offer, right?
I sent one of our books to my Kindle App as a bog-standard ePub2 and it happily read aloud and turned on the "word wise" feature (never saw that before - pretty neat) -- but surely that kind of thing is just a feature of the READER not the format?
I even put an alt-text in the cover but can't see any way to get tht to read aloud (not that it matters?)
Anyhoo... happy to hear thoughts on this.