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Originally Posted by alecE
This has long been a favourite book of mine. I have a pbook version which I have always refused to discard 'cos it was beautiful. So is this epub, I may finally allow my pbook to find a good home elsewhere. Thank you Zelda. 
Minor typo: in the version I downloaded 18/7/09, section Author's Advertisement, sentence "I have come to the conclusion that, be the explanation what it may..." the word 'may' is shown as 'mav'
Fantastic example of epub art  |
thank you so much for the kind words alec, and also for finding that typo and reporting it !! i will fix that. i've not proof-read this text, so please do report any and all mistakes, i appreciate it.
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Originally Posted by Esseb
This is really great, Zelda. It hasn't been that long since I last re-read the book, but this illustrated edition deserves to be next on my reading list, and the markup and css itself is almost as beautiful as the book.
A couple of problems though.
You used the wrong alt text for the initial letter in chapter 1 (the initial letters in the other chapters seemed fine though):
<div class="lettrine"><img src="images/t.gif" alt="W" /></div>
You should limit alt text for cases when it's actually required. The alt attribute is meant to be used when a visually impaired reader would not be able to follow the text without knowing what an image is of. A blind person really isn't going to care that some illustration he can't see is of a "man with cane". If an image actually contains text that a blind person can't read, such as header1.gif or the initial chapter letter images, then you should use alt text, but in many cases, alt="" is really the best thing to do.
Take the first illustration in chapter 1, for example. This is what the book would sound like to a blind person:
See "Context is Everything" at http://webaim.org/techniques/alttext/, specifically example 2. |
thank you very much esseb ! code almost as beautiful as the book, that is high praise indeed.
thank you for pointing out those problems ; the wrong alt text is obviously a left-over i didn't fix (originally it was the wrong image as well
).
and i will take a look a the site you link, definitely. i am a webdesigner and so i've gotten into the habit of always including an alt description but you make a very good case for situations where that is not necessary. thank you !
i'll post an updated version soon (i hope. drowning in work lately, but this will be on my list of priorities).
thank you again everybody ! with all your help one day this book will be perfect.
