[bksvol-discuss] Textbook validating
- From: mlsestak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:04:45 -0700
I need help in making a textbook useful. I took "Good to Great" because I had
a class that
used it, so I have a print copy. I also thought it didn't have that many
tables and graphs in it,
but the class was a few years ago and my memory was not quite right. So, here
are the
difficulties I have with this book...
It has some graphs and other diagrams in it. I think I can describe all of them
well enough to
get the idea across, but is there any standard way to specify that they are
descriptions of
pictures?
There are footnotes at the bottom of a few pages. How do I indicate where the
footnote
symbol in the page text and how do I indicate where the footnote text begins at
the bottom of
the page?
There are also end notes, that have an indicator in the regular text, then the
notes are all
listed at the end of the book. Same question for how I indicate these as for
the footnotes.
Throughout the book, some ot the text is highlighted by being in grey boxes.
These scanned
in very well for the most part so that isn't the problem. These aren't
separate sidebar
information, they are just parts of the text the author apparently thought are
important enough
to highlight. Is there any standard way to indicate such highlighting? Or
should I just ignore
it?
Finally, I looked back at some of the comments related to book formatting in
the bookshare
volunteer discussion archive and it is mentioned that tabs and spaces to format
tables may
be removed by the bookshare software. What is the best way to get tables with
rows and
columns and labels for these so that they make sense in a screen reader (I've
used a screen
reader in the past, but not recently, these days I just zoom things about 3
times normal)?
I'd like to work toward doing textbooks since I can see well enough to compare
the printed
version to the downloaded file, but maybe I'm not ready for this complex a
task, yet. But, if
anyone can help me, I'll try.
Mike
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