Re: The Reluctant Communist
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2018 3:05 pm
@Daniella
In response to a couple of your original comments, the photographs have two components - a caption (as provided in the original book), and an alt text description (that we write). The Caption is text inserted using Word's Insert Caption tool and this translates to the DAISY XML <caption> tag. The Alt text description translates to the image’s <alt> tag. To add Alt text we add this to the metadata of the image (in Word, you do this by right-clicking the image, selecting Format Picture, and adding text in the Alt Text description field). We do this in accordance with the DAISY Consortium guidelines. I'm surprised that JAWS has difficulty reading image captions and descriptions, I'm going to look into this further.
As for including some instructions in the production notes section at the beginning of the book for readers to know that there are photo descriptions, that's a great idea. We will incorporate this into our Producer’s Notes going forward. Thanks!
In response to a couple of your original comments, the photographs have two components - a caption (as provided in the original book), and an alt text description (that we write). The Caption is text inserted using Word's Insert Caption tool and this translates to the DAISY XML <caption> tag. The Alt text description translates to the image’s <alt> tag. To add Alt text we add this to the metadata of the image (in Word, you do this by right-clicking the image, selecting Format Picture, and adding text in the Alt Text description field). We do this in accordance with the DAISY Consortium guidelines. I'm surprised that JAWS has difficulty reading image captions and descriptions, I'm going to look into this further.
As for including some instructions in the production notes section at the beginning of the book for readers to know that there are photo descriptions, that's a great idea. We will incorporate this into our Producer’s Notes going forward. Thanks!
Daniellalpl wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2018 3:25 pm Would it be possible to insert photo descriptions in the text, rather than as objects?
It may also be useful to include some instructions in the production notes section at the beginning of the book (the E-text version) for readers to know that there are photo descriptions. It may also be useful to add some instructions on how to find/read descriptions; perhaps add this information with other tips on the website.