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Appendix A: Resources and Style Guides
Alt Text Resources
- Describing Visual Resources toolkit. https://describingvisualresources.org/guidelines/.
A toolkit created by the University of Michigan designed to support authors, editors, and publishers in advancing the description of visual resources for accessibility in arts and humanities publications.
- Diagram Center’s guidelines. http://diagramcenter.org/table-of-contents-2.html.
A Benetech initiative that details best practices concerning style, language, formatting, and layout that apply to every type of image. Also includes best practices specific to particular image categories and classifications (e.g., maps, line graphs, tables).
- WebAIM’s guidelines. https://webaim.org/techniques/alttext/.
General alt text guidelines that focus primarily on images.
General Resources
- Blatner, David, Glenn Fleishman, Steve Roth, and Conrad Chavez. Real World Scanning and Halftones. 3rd ed. Berkeley, Calif.: Peachpit Press, 2004.
An accessible reference for the layperson that explains how digital images work and provides useful tips to ensure high-quality output.
- The Chicago Manual of Style. 17th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
The indispensable national book-publishing standard and an especially helpful resource for issues of capitalization and documentation. Chapter 16 includes comprehensive instructions for indexing. The University of Minnesota Press follows this guide.
- The Diversity Style Guide. https://www.diversitystyleguide.com.
The guide contains more than 700 terms related to race/ethnicity, disability, immigration, sexuality and gender identity, drugs and alcohol, and geography.
- Germano, William. From Dissertation to Book. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
- Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com.
The Internet Movie Database website is an excellent resource on films, videos, and television productions.
- Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. 11th ed. Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, Inc., 2003.
Used by copy editors, proofreaders, and typesetters to determine preferred spelling and hyphenation. This is the University of Minnesota Press’s authority.
- Mulvany, Nancy C. Indexing Books. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
- Strunk, William, Jr., and E. B. White. The Elements of Style. 4th ed. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1999.
Renowned and compact reference for grammar, punctuation, and language style questions.