RE: Manifest on convergence of e-book accessibility standards

">   *   EPUB Accessibility is based on WCAG 2.0 A (as requirement), whereas
EN 301 549 v4.1.1 will be based on WCAG 2.2 AA"

I should correct this misperception.
EPUB Accessibility 1.1 refers to the latest version of WCAG, which is
currently 2.2. In case there is WCAG 2.3 or 2.4 in future, EPUB
accessibility will refer to it. 
We do allow EPUB Accessibility 1.1 to refer to WCAG 2.0, in case some
publisher needs it, but it is not a recommended practice.
We fixed this in EPUB Accessibility 1.1, released in May 2023.

Thanks
Avneesh
-----Original Message-----
From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> 
Sent: Sunday, May 5, 2024 5:01 PM
To: Gottfried Zimmermann <gzimmermann@zi7n.de>
Cc: W3C WAI Accessible Platform Architectures <public-apa@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Manifest on convergence of e-book accessibility standards

Dear Gottfried:

We can and should discuss this topic in APA. Let's look for a suitable date
a bit later in May? Perhaps 15 May? Later in the month also works.

For context please note that APA is also requested to review a fixed layout
Epub draft specification here:

https://w3c.github.io/epub-specs/epub33/fxl-a11y/

A preliminary discussion of this Epub spec occured in APA on 17 April and is
logged here:

https://www.w3.org/2024/04/17-apa-minutes.html#t05

Note we were considering whether the json graph data visualization approach
developed in a W3C Community Group might provide a solution.

Best,
Janina

Gottfried Zimmermann writes:
> Hi APA,
> 
> i want to bring to your attention a problem with regards to ebook
accessibility that we are facing in Europe next year, when the European
Accessibility Act kicks in.  The point is that the EAA makes a difference
between ebooks in EPUB3 vs. ebooks in PDF. Therefore, the two following
standards are relevant, when it comes to compliance of ebooks to EAA:
> 
>   *   For ebooks in EPUB3: W3C EPUB Accessibility
1.1<EPUB%20Accessibility%201.1>
>   *   For ebooks in PDF: EN 301 549 v4.1.1 (coming)
> 
> Here is a summary of the main differences between the two standards:
> 
>   *   EPUB Accessibility is based on WCAG 2.0 A (as requirement), whereas
EN 301 549 v4.1.1 will be based on WCAG 2.2 AA
>   *   EPUB Accessibility includes metadata for discoverability, but EN 301
549 not currently.
> 
> A group of accessibility experts (including me) has met a couple of times
to discuss this problem. The result of our discussions is attached as
"Manifest on convergence of e-book accessibility standards".  We want a
consolidation of standards for ebook accessibility, so that publishers do
not need to make a difference between ebooks in EPUB3 and ebooks in PDF
format.
> 
> Can we discuss this in one of our upcoming meetings?
> 
> Best regards,
> Gottfried
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