Re:Crafting Interpreters is available in print
by mwcampbell on Thursday July 29, 2021 @11:09AM
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Congratulations on completing this long journey. I just bought a copy, mostly to reward your effort, but also to satisfy my curiosity on an aspect of how the PDF sausage was made. I notice that the PDF version of the book doesn't include the semantic tags required for accessibility. Now, please don't take this as a criticism; I know that people (like me) who use a screen reader or other accessibility tool can go with the EPUB or online version. But, I wonder, did you consciously decide to turn off tagged PDF, or were you just going with the default in InDesign? Thanks!
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Re:Crafting Interpreters is available in print
by munificent on Thursday July 29, 2021 @11:11AM
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> I just bought a copy, mostly to reward your effort
Thank you!
> did you consciously decide to turn off tagged PDF
I did not. I did export an interactive PDF from InDesign and took care to make sure that the table of contents and internal links work, but I have zero experience in PDF accessibility. I'll take a look into it and see what I can figure out.
Re:Crafting Interpreters is available in print
by mwcampbell on Thursday July 29, 2021 @11:19AM
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> I have zero experience in PDF accessibility.
You and 99% of people who have ever produced a PDF file, I would guess. Which is why I wish InDesign would do the right thing by default. No big deal for this book since it's available in other formats, and I don't regret purchasing the PDF, but so many other books and documents are made available only as PDF.
Re:Crafting Interpreters is available in print
by munificent on Thursday July 29, 2021 @11:31AM
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Thank you for buying a copy. If you prefer to try out the EPUB file to see if that's better, email me and I can hook you up.