Re: Best citation format for accessibility from Olaf Drümmer on 2015-09-22 (public-digipub-ig@w3.org from September 2015)

From: Olaf Drümmer <olaf@druemmer.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 18:19:50 +0200
To: Bill Kasdorf <bkasdorf@apexcovantage.com>
Cc: Olaf Drümmer <olaf@druemmer.com>, Bill McCoy <bmccoy@idpf.org>, Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>, W3C Digital Publishing IG <public-digipub-ig@w3.org>
Message-Id: <7B20542D-6350-43CC-868B-53E297B6E28A@druemmer.com>

On 22 Sep 2015, at 17:50, Bill Kasdorf <bkasdorf@apexcovantage.com> wrote:

> My point is that from an accessibility point of view, the components of a citation are generally already known; the challenge is getting them from JATS to HTML.


Why would one care from an accessibility point of view?

A sighted user looking at a print version (a electronic version rendered on some screen) of a citation doesn't have that granular information provided as part of the visual rendering.

Olaf

Received on Tuesday, 22 September 2015 16:20:28 UTC