Ivan,
This is a great. Going forward we will be able to expand on ePub's
accessibility capabilities. For example, SVG 2 now has ARIA and tabindex in
the spec. In the future we will be able to roll this support into books. A
big issue will be getting open source MathML readers (voice) and renders -
preferably based on SVG as it is a good fit for mobile. Access to digital
math by the blind and those with attention deficit would benefit from
having this capability. In fact we recently did a study for the Department
of Education. The ability for students to have Math navigable through
highlighting and speech improved math comprehension by 10-15 percent across
the board.
Rich
Rich Schwerdtfeger
From: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
To: W3C Digital Publishing IG <public-digipub-ig@w3.org>, W3C
Public Digital Publishing IG Mailing List
<public-digipub-ig-comment@w3.org>
Date: 11/05/2013 05:34 AM
Subject: The AAP EPUB 3 Implementation Project
I would expect many of you (most of you?) may be familiar with this, but
gor those of you who are not:
https://nfb.org/images/nfb/documents/html/aapepub3implementation.xhtml
Lots of good guidelines point on accessibility issues, for example
Ivan
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