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Picture books are books were there are more images than text. Often the text will be part of the image itself, so we have developed a way to describe this book for conversion. Though these are mainly children’s books, sometimes you will have other reading level books that are heavily illustrated. With children’s books, most of the time, they do not have tables of contents or chapter headings, and their text is usually part of an image, or they are image-heavy. | Picture books are books were there are more images than text. Often the text will be part of the image itself, so we have developed a way to describe this book for conversion. Though these are mainly children’s books, sometimes you will have other reading level books that are heavily illustrated. With children’s books, most of the time, they do not have tables of contents or chapter headings, and their text is usually part of an image, or they are image-heavy. | ||
- | If the book you are working on is image-based (i.e. the text is part of the image), then you will need to transcribe the text below the image. You will also need to create headings, and add a producer’s note at the beginning of the book stating why you did so. | + | If the book you are working on is image-based (i.e. the text is part of the image), then you will need to transcribe the text above the image. You will also need to create headings, and add a producer’s note at the beginning of the book stating why you did so. |
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+ | <note tip>If you have any questions, post your question on the [[public: | ||
=====Illustrated Books===== | =====Illustrated Books===== | ||
Illustrated books are children’s book for a higher reading level, and there is more text than images in these types of books. Often, the text will not be part of the image itself, as the images work more to complement the descriptions presented in the main content. There is more text than images within the book. | Illustrated books are children’s book for a higher reading level, and there is more text than images in these types of books. Often, the text will not be part of the image itself, as the images work more to complement the descriptions presented in the main content. There is more text than images within the book. | ||
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- | If the book you are working on is text heavy with complementary images, then you just need to add Alt-Text. The rest of the book can be formatted as you would a standard etext book. For the most part the same standards for Alt-Text apply to these types of images, but there are some additional points you should keep in mind as you describe the image: | ||
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- | * Make sure that the words you choose are at the same reading level as the book. | ||
- | * Reading text around the image can help you find this tone and inform your description. | ||
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- | * If you find the image is already fully described in the text, just write a basic description so that the image has Alt-text, but is not repetitive in description. | ||
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For more information about formatting and book sections please see below. | For more information about formatting and book sections please see below. | ||
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+ | ======Image Descriptions for Children' | ||
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+ | It is possible to describe picture books using [[public: | ||
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+ | Tone and word choice are very important with Picture Books. Aiming to match these will help keep the narrative flow for your readers with print disabilities, | ||
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+ | Remember you are also creating books for adults! If an adult with a print disability is reading to a child who does not have one, the adult will want to know what is in that image. Children love to point out details of pictures. So keep that in mind. | ||
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+ | For more documentation for how to describe images for Children' | ||
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+ | <note tip>If you have any questions about images, post your question on the [[public: | ||
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+ | Q: For children' | ||
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+ | A: Good Question! You can assign the first page of the story as Page One (heading 1) if there are no page numbers. | ||
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+ | Q: What do I do if there aren't any page numbers in a kid's book? The wiki says to make sure my page numbers that I'm using for page headings match up with the book. I'm working on Birdsong and I'm using Calibre to view it and don't see any page numbers. | ||
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+ | A: I opened this up in my Kindle reader to check if this was an issue with Calibre (.azw3 is a kindle file) and it still did not show numbers. | ||
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