RE: Thoughts on rechartering and the future of publications on the web

Hi,

Rather than taking a PDF and converting to EPUB, I would hope we could get
the authoring tool and/or the workflow to produce the semantically rich EPUB
3 natively.

Best
George


-----Original Message-----
From: Dmitry Markushevich (dmitrym@evidentpoint.com)
<dmitrym@evidentpoint.com> 
Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 11:37 AM
To: Leonard Rosenthol <lrosenth@adobe.com>
Cc: MURATA Makoto <eb2m-mrt@asahi-net.or.jp>; bobbytung@w3.org; W3C
Publishing Business Group <public-publishingbg@w3.org>; Dave Cramer
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Subject: Re: Thoughts on rechartering and the future of publications on the
web


On 8 Nov 2018, at 7:43, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:

> > In my understanding, they use images or PDF files.   For 
> accessiblity reasons,  I am not happy.
>>
> PDF files can be made as accessible as an EPUB, though admittedly with 
> some more work (depending on the authoring environment).   You will 
> find that PDF/UA (the PDF Universal Accessibility standard) has been 
> adopted as a national standard in numerous countries around the world 
> as an accepted solution for accessible publications.

There are tools (of which we make one) that convert PDFs to semantically 
valid EPUBs. In combination with an accessible reader this makes 
everything accessible.

Dmitry

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