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epub Checklist

deploy HTML 5 and clean up html
- clean up all overrides
edit the CSS down
check navigation
- standardize toc
- add landmarks
- add ncx
add accessibility metadata
check fonts (encryption and subsets)
search and delete erroneous language declarations (extra fr or la etc.), move language declarations
fix emphasis and italics, bold and strong etc.
Add epub:type and ARIA roles
add external https links and urls
run though epubchecker and Ace by DAISY
Flightdeck if available

Accessibility Checklist

Semantics, i, em lang etc.
Double check <li> structures
Proper alt descriptions and decorative images
Proper hierarchy
Correct sectioning and ARIA roles
Page lists
Navigation: landmarks
LOI and LOT (list of tables)

Fix HTML

change <div> –> <section>
add urls (non space followed by dotcom followed by line break etc)
- ([^\s]+)\.(ca|com|org|uk|au|edu).*?(?=\n|\.| |<)
doublecheck <br/>s

Check into p.first-child class — it needs to be added as p:first-child isn’t respected

Specific changes

context breaks –> <hr/>

Edit CSS

see base css

Nav toc

add in all extras (i.e. bio, about, etc) not in print ToC
leave toc.xhtml as is

Landmarks

Minimum Landmarks

<nav epub:type="landmarks" hidden="">
  <ol>
    <li><a epub:type="cover" href="cover.xhtml">Cover</a></li>
    <li><a epub:type="frontmatter" href="copyright.xhtml#title">Preface</a></li>
    <li><a epub:type="toc" href="toc.xhtml">Table of Contents</a></li>
    <li><a epub:type="bodymatter" href="chapter1.xhtml">Start of Content</a></li>
    <li><a epub:type="backmatter" href="afterword.xhtml#title">Afterword</a></li>
    <li><a epub:type="loi" href="loi.xhtml">List of Illustrations</a></li>
  </ol>
</nav>

Possible Landmarks

cover – the book cover(s), jacket information, etc.
toc – table of contents
bodymatter – First “real” page of content (e.g. “Chapter 1”)
title-page – page with possibly title, author, publisher, and other metadata
frontmatter
backmatter
loi – list of illustrations
lot – list of tables
preface
bibliography
index – back-of-book style index
glossary
acknowledgments

According to Laura Brady extensive landmarks are not really used. You can limit it to: COVER
FRONTMATTER
BODYMATTER
BACKMATTER
LOI etc.

Add accessibility metadata

templates

check textual or textual and visual

Metadata

urn:isbn:9780765331458

?????? 15</meta>

Fonts

Remove encryption

[] removed

\META-INF\encryption.xml
Re-add fonts
Run Sigil subset plugin

Language declarations

clean up extra from indesign
move lang declaration to header
- <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:epub="http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops" lang="en-CA" xml:lang="en-CA">
add tags <span xml:lang="fr">xxx</span>
check <em> vs <i> etc.

Add ARIA roles and double check epub:type

Daisy aria roles
check spreadsheet (/Projects/ Ebook Production/Doc-roles.xlsx)
avoid overuse of ARIA roles

Run checks

[] run epubcheck
[] Ace by Daisy
[] FlightDeck

Indesign Checklist

(https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/export-content-epub-cc.html) Alt text via object export style Story order via articles or Story

Preserve appearance image object styles? sidebar object styles adjust iamges manually

Checklist

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