Thread: Amazon to allow downloads of DRM free books
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Old 12-19-2025, 10:57 AM   #60
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Originally Posted by vermontcathy View Post
What difference does it make what the back-end code looks like, as long as it looks good on the kindle?
Accessibility, for one thing.

Replacing elements that have semantic meaning (like H1 and EM) with generic elements (like DIV and SPAN) results in accessibility issues. Text-to-speech won't have the clues it needs to do the right thing.

Also, this is not about "looking good on a Kindle", as the EPUB isn't intended to be used on a Kindle...it's intended to be used on other devices. Because of that, it should maintain the proper elements.

Amazon doesn't seem to have a problem creating KF8 files that use appropriate HTML elements, so why should this EPUB output be any different?
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