- From: George Kerscher <kerscher@montana.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:44:01 -0600
- To: "W3C WAI Accessible Platform Architectures" <public-apa@w3.org>, "Janina Sajka" <janina@rednote.net>
- Message-ID: <001901d1dc8e$e614bac0$b23e3040$@montana.com>
DearJanina and APA folks, The second editor's draft of the EPUB accessibility specification and techniques are now available. This new draft adds additional clarity to publication conformance requirements and provides a full set of techniques for review. We are looking for input from all sectors. The specification and techniques build on WAI guidelines. We believe these specification and the conformance requirements have the potential to revolutionize access to published works by persons with print disabilities. Included in the spec and detailed in the techniques are items such as: The Schema property "accessibilitySummary," which for the first time would make a human readable explanation of the accessibility of an EPUB publication discoverable and available. and Another Schema property, "accessModeSufficient," which would clearly identify the modes of access available to read the whole publication, e.g. textual and auditory. We fully expect the publications to be approved in 2016. You can provide comments directly to me: Kerscher@montana.com You can find them at: EPUB Accessibility Conformance and Discovery Requirements for EPUB Publications http://www.idpf.org/epub/a11y/ EPUB Accessibility Techniques http://www.idpf.org/epub/a11y/techniques/ Best George George Kerscher Ph.D. -In our Information Age, access to information is a fundamental human right. Chief Innovations Officer, DAISY Consortium http://www.daisy.org Senior Advisor, Global Literacy, Benetech http://www.benetech.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 Phone: +1 406/549-4687 Cell:+1 406/544-2466 Email: kerscher@montana.com
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