Hi Alyssa. To the best of my knowledge, we don't have a hard and fast rule about these. I label mine with the words caption, sidebar, and text box with parentheses around the label. I don't usually label tables because they are easier to indentify by how they look. I know other people do things differently. I also use this method to let people know about a page that contains a picture, drawing, or graph that won't scan so they'll know there is something there. If I have sighted help, I describe the picture. If no one is able to help me, or If it's something complicated like a bar graph, I just let people know that it's there in case they have a buddy who can describe it to them. I know my system isn't perfect, and others may have better solutions. I hope this helps. Monica Willyard "The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker _____ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alyssa Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 7:54 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Textbook Question I finished proofing a textbook that Shelley had scanned. I'm just waiting for a few pages to be rescanned before submitting it for approval. In the meantime, I came up with a question. This particular issue didn't really phase me since I am a college student and deal with e-texts on a regular basis. However, I realize what I am about to mention might confuse some people when reading this book and any others with this type of information in it, so I wanted to get some opinions on it. On some pages, there are captions and tables. A lot of times, I have found that these items are in the middle or bottom of pages, so they manage to split the main text up to some extent. I have left them as they were when I checked the book out because it made perfect sense to me. Is there something I should do to make sure that this is clear to everyone and that people understand that there isn't missing text in the book? Thanks. -Alyssa