DAISY Consortium supports the more comprehensive scope and we believe Markus Gylling would be an excellent co-chair

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

Received on Sunday, 17 March 2013 18:02:52 UTC