Re: [charter] statement on EPUB4

I didn’t write that, but I can tell you what I think it is supposed to mean.

> higher degree of comprehensive accessibility capabilities and reliability
>
That unlike the general purpose PWP specification, the EPUB 4 profile will have a more comprehensive set of accessibility mandates.  Things that might be optional (or perhaps not even included in the base spec) may/will be mandated by this profile.  (No, I don’t have a good example, but it seems like something worth calling out)

Not sure, however, why reliability is here. I would hope that all PWPs are reliable.


> > with incompatibilities minimized.
>    What does ³incompatibilities minimized² mean? 
>
There seemed to be a lot of concern from members of the current EPUB community that “backwards compatibility” was an important goal for EPUB 4, and this statement is designed to address that.  I don’t think it means anything technically at this point, just a statement of direction (that could probably use a bit of wordsmithing).


Leonard


On 2/14/17, 7:54 AM, "Cramer, Dave" <Dave.Cramer@hbgusa.com> wrote:

    The charter draft [1]  contains this sentence on EPUB 4:
    
    > This specification defines a profile of Packaged Web Publications that
    >delivers a higher degree
    > of comprehensive accessibility capabilities and reliability.
    > This specification should be as close as possible to a strict functional
    >superset of EPUB 3.1,
    > with incompatibilities minimized.
    
    What does ³incompatibilities minimized² mean? For a concrete example,
    would using the HTML serialization be ok for EPUB4? Would it have to use
    exactly the same packaging mechanism?
    
    I would hope that all profiles of web publications would be reliable and
    comprehensively accessible.
    
    More generally, I¹m wary of defining restrictions like this at such an
    early stage. What is this statement trying to accomplish?
    
    Thanks,
    
    Dave Cramer
    
    [1] https://rawgit.com/w3c/dpubwg-charter/a11y-core/index.html

    
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