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

Thank you for your support George!

Ivan

On Mar 17, 2013, at 19:01 , "George Kerscher" <kerscher@montana.com> wrote:

> 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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