How do you include everyone in your digital publishing?

As a book publisher, I always tell authors to avoid using jargons. If a ten year old can't read what you wrote, then you need to revise it. Make your writing easy to read and understand.

First we need to make sure that the digital content is accessible for everyone not only for some special. To make this possible, the content should be in a manner to be understandable for all. After that, the rest of the process of content design, format, etc can make the content more accessible for everyone.

I am a textbook editor, so my main goal is to create digital resource for primary students. I try to incorporate easy, accesible design with simple instructions. Accessible designs help students learn better.

Data and insight is always a good starting point but often having someone who understands the content deeply and communicates in a way that the people consuming it communicate is vital.

Once you know your audience, ease their pain, don’t add pressure to their anxiety. Each thing try read should help them through their journey. Forget the click-bait strategy, tell them upfront what’s valuable and create a narrative engaging enough for keep them reading and stop as soon as necessary. Use links to other stories to provide context, don’t keep spitting text to get your article longer. If you are forging click-bait headlines or increasing text size to doom scrolling your ads, you are playing against them instead of helping.

There may be many parameters here. 1. Content and Pedagogy 2. Digital formats 3. Accessibility 4. Language and captions 5. Regular updates

In digital publishing, inclusivity is key. I create content that speaks to a diverse audience using text, video, and audio formats. Accessibility features such as alt-text and subtitles are standard in my work. By actively seeking diverse feedback, I aim to make digital spaces where everyone feels valued.

Digital publishing is a great tool. It reaches places and people that sometimes a book cannot. The context must be clear, simple, and reachable; but we must not forget to also give space to high-quality illustrations and photographs to enrich texts. I think we still have a long way to go to get excellence in digital publishing.

Good point @Nitin Rajput! Jargon and complex language is not what we need. Simple language that everybody can understand should be the aim!

DTP is the next step from printing industry. I was familiar with ebooks and more interactive ebooks after that. Now, I am keen to engage AI to manipulate content and utilize NLP into Digital Publishing.

For content to be accessible for everyone, the technology backing it needs to be popular and easily available to a majority of end users that your product/platform/website is targeting. For instance, an article shared via email is usually most accessible on a word doc format. Use accurate and popular hashtags when you share it on social media platforms, it helps to be mindful to use broad based and topical hashtags specific to a platform while doing this. And make your writing easy to read, keep the content visually comforting. Sometimes using pictures instead of text works well too.

I always try to make sure to create creative articles and posts. I want to write articles that enlighten the readers, discover something new, and bring them some kind of changes.

That is a great share! Thanks for being that open Sayed Rohani! How do you define creativity? I am just curious and would know more insights!

A cohort specialized in DevOps taught me to test web content accessibility using differently-abled user experiences. I test content versus the ways people experience it: can the content be navigated with only touch or just a keyboard? How navigable is the site for people with limitations on what they can see, hear, and/or read? I test online content against many tools and scenarios. If content is navigable using a screen reader, monitor off, then users are likely able to navigate content the same way. This works for other vision-related tools; keyboard-only or mouse-only navigation; tools for hearing differences; and more. By testing different user experiences, we expand access to services for people who find value from these tools.

Now, this is tricky. We all have unconscious biases. Whenever I work on textbooks, I try to remember this fact and reach out to as many people as possible to discuss perspectives. I tend to question my main characters in stories and the social setting in illustrations. Once, I was working on an Urdu textbook for grade 3. The author was in the process of submitting chapters, and I was compiling them, going all crazy with house-style typesetting. Not until I started working on the art briefs that I discovered that out of 20 chapters of the book, at least 14 had males as main characters. Even the Urdu poems we have selected for the book have the same issue. Now you can understand how unconventional discrimination can be.

I am sorry but I do not hold with this modern woke diversity and inclusion mantra. My writing has always been diverse and inclusive without people getting offended if you mispronounce something, My books are read across the world with not one complaint, if you write for yourself and you like what you write, so will others Ebooks are an excellent digital media and once downloaded can be read by the computer for the visually impaired

Yes, indeed bias is a big topic! I guess in order to have a diverse perspective you have to bring in different aspects and ideas. There is no guarantee that there will be no bias but at least you minimize the bias risk!

If you have been one over or underappreciated by this or that, think about the sick, the lame, the blind, the crippled, the poor, the homeless, the disadvantaged, the hungry, the suffering people; then you will be grateful for what you are, what you have, and for the opportunities available to take advantage of.

Gratitude is a great start for reminding ourselves for being thankful for what we have. Being thankful gives room for creativity and new ideas to come in our mind.

While everything said and done, I feel this step is the most crucial one. We need to evaluate our process and improve with time.

Beware of surveys done before your practices are optimal, though. A platform may look like it's doing nothing for you when in fact you are not using it right in the first place.

I'd like to know what effect people think AI will have on search and on SEO practices. Seems to me it's a gamechanger? People will be asking questions rather than doing keyword searches, so what does that tell us about keywords?

Throw a thousand stones in the pond, giving rise to a multitude of circles, all getting lost in vain. Throw a piece of bread in the pond with the intention of feeding a hungry animal, and all circles become meaningful. Those footprints left on the ground by someone helping a poverty-stricken orphan or a hungry one will be carved in the memory of the universe. That hero risking his or her life battling the wild waves to save a life becomes unforgettable. Attempts to help humanity become immortal.