Re: EPUB testing criteria
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2018 12:22 pm
Good morning Testers,
It was so wonderful to meet with you yesterday! What a terrific team we have.
Daniella and I have been talking about revisions we could make to the answer spreadsheet for ePub testing to allow for more detail. I find a question such as
Are all sections identified with headings?
difficult to answer if it is true for most of the book. I don't want to say No, because that discounts the publisher's work in marking the headings they did, but I don't want to say Yes, since they did miss one or two.
Similarly, I used to struggle with the question about Alt tags.
If the book has images, are they described using alt-text?
This is an excellent example of Daniella's revision work already. We now have questions pertaining to Alt text not interrupting the flow of the narrative (such as using the <Figure> class) along with a question asking if crucial text in the image is available by another method.
So, what do you fine folks think about adding a couple of follow-up questions to clarify any ambiguities you've run into?
We could change
Are all sections identified with headings?
to
Are most sections identified with headings?
and then add below that
Are any sections not identified with headings?
This is just an example. Any other ideas?
It never ceases to amaze me how differently every book is coded and presented. Such is the diversity of publishing, but it sure makes it difficult to draw up a list of questions that covers the important points, without taking too long to fill out and summarize!
It was so wonderful to meet with you yesterday! What a terrific team we have.
Daniella and I have been talking about revisions we could make to the answer spreadsheet for ePub testing to allow for more detail. I find a question such as
Are all sections identified with headings?
difficult to answer if it is true for most of the book. I don't want to say No, because that discounts the publisher's work in marking the headings they did, but I don't want to say Yes, since they did miss one or two.
Similarly, I used to struggle with the question about Alt tags.
If the book has images, are they described using alt-text?
This is an excellent example of Daniella's revision work already. We now have questions pertaining to Alt text not interrupting the flow of the narrative (such as using the <Figure> class) along with a question asking if crucial text in the image is available by another method.
So, what do you fine folks think about adding a couple of follow-up questions to clarify any ambiguities you've run into?
We could change
Are all sections identified with headings?
to
Are most sections identified with headings?
and then add below that
Are any sections not identified with headings?
This is just an example. Any other ideas?
It never ceases to amaze me how differently every book is coded and presented. Such is the diversity of publishing, but it sure makes it difficult to draw up a list of questions that covers the important points, without taking too long to fill out and summarize!