DAISY Accessible Publishing Knowledge Base Recent updates to the DAISY Accessible Publishing KB https://kb.daisy.org/publishing/docs 2024 DAISY. All rights reserved Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:01:00 +0500 Wed, 11 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0500 1440 MathML caution removed https://kb.daisy.org/publishing/docs/html/mathml.html The caution about using MathML has been removed as support for MathML rendering continues to improve.

]]> Wed, 11 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0500 New pages for QR codes https://kb.daisy.org/publishing/docs/html/images-qr.html Although QR codes are most often associated with getting people from physical to digital media, they are starting to appear in digital publications. QR codes can be helpful for devices that are not connected to the internet, but they need to be created accessibly to be useful to the greatest number of readers. The knowledge base now includes a page covering best practices for QR codes.

]]> Thur, 19 Sept 2024 12:00:00 +0500 New pages for accessibility features https://kb.daisy.org/publishing/docs/metadata/schema.org/accessibilityFeature.html The knowledge base now includes separate pages for each of the schema.org accessibilityFeature values. As the list of these values grows, maintaining their explanations in a single page has made discovering information about them more cumbersome. By breaking them out into separate pages, each value now includes more information and examples.

]]> Thur, 28 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0500 New pages on setting the text direction https://kb.daisy.org/publishing/docs/epub/dir.html The knowledge base now includes two new pages covering the use of the dir attribute to set the base direction for text in the package document and in HTML documents.

]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0500 Expanded guidance on page navigation https://kb.daisy.org/publishing/docs/navigation/pagenav.html The page on page navigation is now split in four:

These pages provide additional context on their respective topics, as well as update and expand on the examples and frequently asked questions.

Some of the new issues covered include not adding page breaks to headings, how to identify the source of pagination when the source does not have a unique identifier, and that preference should now be given to the pageBreakSource property.

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