User Experience Guide for accessibility metadata 2.0 first public draft available for review

Dear WAI Interest Group,
 
The message below was sent out yesterday and is being circulated broadly in
publishing circles throughout the world.  Please forward to your contacts in
the publishing industry. IMO this will have a major impact to all of us with
print disabilities. I think the Principles linked below is a great read for
everybody!
 
Now that the first public draft is out, we expect to see implementations by
online bookstores and libraries in the near future. The Accessibility
taskforce in the publishing community group will highlight good
implementations and seek user feedback. We will post here once that is ready
for your review.
 
Best
George
 
Dear Publishing Community,
 
Please feel free to circulate within your company!
 
As we all know by now, the European Accessibility Act comes into force in
June 2025, and it requires that end users and educators have access to
information about the accessibility of the publications they plan to
purchase or assign to students.
 
With this in mind, we are pleased to announce that the first public draft of
the "User Experience Guide for the Display of Accessibility Metadata 2.0" is
now available for review and comment. We are seeking feedback from the
publishing, bookselling, and library communities, as well as from
distributors of digital books.
 
This set of guidelines is an essential read for many in the publishing and
distribution chain:
 
The Principles document
<https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/UX-Guide-Metadata/2.0/principles/>  is the
backbone of the guidelines and is essential for everybody to read.
The ONIX metadata Techniques
<https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/UX-Guide-Metadata/2.0/techniques/onix-metad
ata/index.html>  and EPUB Accessibility metadata Techniques
<https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/UX-Guide-Metadata/2.0/techniques/epub-metad
ata/index.html>  explain the logic of how the metadata gets converted to
meaningful statements that will resonate with end users. Every software
developer/coder implementing the presentation in a catalogue needs to study
these techniques, but it is also recommended that anyone responsible for
metadata in a publishing house review them
 
Comments are most welcome, and we ask that you file a GitHub issue
<https://github.com/w3c/publ-a11y/issues> .
 
If you are uncomfortable filing a GitHub issue, feel free to send me the
comment and I will file the issue on your behalf.
 
Principles :
<https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/UX-Guide-Metadata/2.0/principles/>
https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/UX-Guide-Metadata/2.0/principles/
ONIX Meta data techniques :
<https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/UX-Guide-Metadata/2.0/techniques/onix-metad
ata/index.html>
https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/UX-Guide-Metadata/2.0/techniques/onix-metada
ta/index.html
EPUB accessibility metadata techniques:
<https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/UX-Guide-Metadata/2.0/techniques/epub-metad
ata/index.html>
https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/UX-Guide-Metadata/2.0/techniques/epub-metada
ta/index.html
Issue tracker: https://github.com/w3c/publ-a11y/issues
 
Best
George, on behalf of the W3C Publishing Community Group Accessibility
Taskforce
 

 
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/> http://www.daisy.org
Senior Advisor, Global Literacy, Benetech
 <http://www.benetech.org/> http://www.benetech.org
President, International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) 
 <http://www.idpf.org/> http://www.idpf.org
Chair Steering Council Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), at W3C
 <http://www.w3.org/WAI> http://www.w3.org/WAI
Cell:+1 406/544-2466 
Email:  <mailto:kerscher@montana.com> kerscher@montana.com