Communicating with Readers - Metadata and DAISY Reports

Metadata

We have summarised the most widely used metadata standards on our pages here: Standards - Metadata

Here, we offer recommendations on how to approach accessibility metadata overall.

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DAISY reports

Ace SMART by DAISY is a recommended free open source tool that will generate an accessibility report for EPUBs. The output of these generates standardised text and lists accessibility features and conformance against standards, which can be copied onto book landing pages to give readers full information about your EPUBs in a standardised format.

There is a simple user guide available to get you started. To use the tool, you will need to have an idea of the accessibility of your EPUBs, which can be done automatically using Ace by DAISY, which is a separate auditing tool. In the output of this tool there will be a JSON file, that can be loaded into Ace SMART to generate a report. There are three steps after this has been loaded, Pub Info, Conformance and Metadata. There is a final Reporting tab after this where you can customise the reporting further. The user guide explains all of these steps.