- From: George Kerscher <kerscher@montana.com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:01:58 -0600
- To: "W3C Digital Publishing" <member-digital-publishing@w3.org>, "W3C Public Digital Publishing" <public-digital-publishing@w3.org>
- Cc: "Ivan Herman" <ivan@w3.org>, "Markus Gylling" <markus.gylling@gmail.com>, "Bill McCoy" <whmccoy@gmail.com>
DAISY Consortium, a long-time member of the W3C, supports the W3C increasing its emphasis on Digital Publishing, and the proposed Interest Group seems to be a good step. DAISY favors the wider charter because "eBooks" does not capture the full range of digital publishing use cases for the Open Web Platform. Accessibility to all is critical, and DAISY has worked within the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) to ensure that EPUB, the packaged portable document format built on HTML and other Web Standards that has been developed by the IDPF, meets all key requirements for accessibility. As fragmentation of multiple non-interoperable formats would be a very bad result, both for accessibility and in general, DAISY believes it's critical that W3C's new engagement in publishing align with EPUB and explicitly involve IDPF and its 300+ members from across the global publishing industry in pursuing the worthwhile long-term goal of harmonization of EPUB and W3C Recommendations and other work to advance the Open Web Platform for publishing requirements. We also think that Markus Gylling would make an excellent co-chair for this work. Best George George Kerscher Ph.D. In our Information Age, access to information is a fundamental human right. Secretary General, DAISY Consortium http://www.daisy.org Senior Officer, Accessible Technology Learning Ally originally Recording For the Blind & Dyslexic http://www.learningally.org Chair Steering Council Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), a division of the W3C http://www.w3c.org/wai President, International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) http://www.idpf.org Phone: +1 406/549-4687 Email: kerscher@montana.com
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