Re: Help needed: EPUB 3.01 revision referencing a11y metadata spec

There is definite overlap here, personally the Adaptation properties appeal as being very useful additions to CreativeWork.

It would be even better if the accessMode & mediaFeature properties could have default expectations of external, machine processable, types/enumerations - Text is always there in Schema as a fallback.  Not sure however if/where there is an authoritative for them.

As to inter group cooperation, I suggest we use the SchemaBibEx list to quickly question/suggest support/enhancements to the proposal but then as individuals engage with the public-vocabs discussion directly.

~Richard.



On 1 Sep 2013, at 08:24, Shlomo Sanders <Shlomo.Sanders@exlibrisgroup.com> wrote:

> Getting Accessibility into the spec would be more than great.
> If not planned for in advance this causes unnecessary dev work afterwards when it needs to be fixed.
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> Thanks,
> Shlomo
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karen Coyle [mailto:kcoyle@kcoyle.net] 
> Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 23:15
> To: public-schemabibex@w3.org
> Subject: Fwd: Help needed: EPUB 3.01 revision referencing a11y metadata spec
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> Folks,
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> The first four terms in the accessibility proposal could be useful for us as well, I think.
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> accessMode (text, auditory, tactile....) mediaFeature (text, captions, largePrint, ChemML...) isAdaptationOf (URL) hasAdaptation (URL)
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> I think it would be worth working with this group *quickly* to see if there's anything major that we need that isn't there at this time. We should assume that we could add other types later.
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> kc
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Help needed: EPUB 3.01 revision referencing a11y metadata  spec
> Resent-Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 17:15:54 +0000
> Resent-From: public-vocabs@w3.org
> Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 11:14:59 -0600
> From: George Kerscher <kerscher@montana.com>
> To: <public-vocabs@w3.org>
> CC: Gerardo Capiel <gerardoc@benetech.org>,        Matt Garrish 
> <matt.garrish@bell.net>
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> Dear schema.org folks,
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> We need some help here. The proposal at:
> http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/Accessibility
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> Is under consideration by  the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF)'s working group for inclusion in the EPUB 3.01 revision that is quickly working towards ISO approval as a Technical Specification.
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> It would be terrific if this could reach a status in the next few weeks to make it into this spec. EPUB 3 references HTML5 and other specifications that are not full W3C recommendations, but a status of accepted public draft or better is necessary for inclusion in the spec.
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> If somehow we could get the accessibility metadata spec to this state, I would appreciate it.
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>> From my POV, having this type of metadata in the package file for each 
>> EPUB
> 3 publication  would go a long, long way in promoting digital publications that are accessible to persons with disabilities.
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> I have copied Gerardo and Matt with this request, who are in a better position to answer technical questions.
> 
> Best
> George
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> George Kerscher Ph.D.
> -In our Information Age, access to information is a fundamental human right.
> Secretary General, DAISY Consortium
> http://www.daisy.org
> Senior Officer, Accessible Technology Learning Ally originally Recording For the Blind & Dyslexic http://www.learningally.org President, International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) http://www.idpf.org Member of the National Museum and Library Services  Board (IMLS) http://www.imls.gov Chair Steering Council Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), a division of the W3C http://www.w3c.org/wai
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