The Circular Software Accessibility Tools Panel (CircularFLO Tools menu or GreenLight Tools menu > Accessibility Tools) is home to various tools to help with setting up InDesign for greater accessibility in our CircularFLO exported ebooks. These tools are split into the following categories:
Each tool is explained in more detail on the Circular Software Tools page.
By default, the Metadata Matcher tool affects InDesign's fixed layout EPUB export options to help CircularFLO users. Hold down the option key down when clicking the tool to apply to reflowable EPUB export settings.
Since InDesign 2024.2 Adobe have added the ability to include accessibility metadata to InDesign EPUB exports. CircularFLO also uses this information as it is an important requirement for accessible EPUBs.
Ebook distributors, platforms and retailers rely on this information to help readers, librarians and educators make informed choices on which ebooks they can offer to readers.
But… this complex set of metadata options need to be manually set in every file and can only be added at the time of export in an easily missed tab.
With the free Metadata Matcher tool in GreenLight this accessibility metadata can be easily viewed, edited, applied, extracted and copied between documents.
The Metadata Matcher tool is available in the GreenLight Tools menu > Accessibility Tools > Metadata.
Once clicked, the CircularFLO Metadata panel is added to the active document's pasteboard. It is an InDesign table which can be edited using InDesign's Type Tool.
The metadata settings chosen in the CircularFLO Metadata panel can either be by changing the values from no to yes, the
Click the Metadata Matcher button for options
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Ebook retailers and platforms expose this information to help users, libraries make and informed choice of which ebooks they can
To use the Metadata Matcher to Add a CircularFLO metadata panel
But… this complex set of metadata options need to be manually set in an easily missed tab in the export dialog, and this needs to be repeated every file and can only be added at export.
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