[a11y] Agenda of Accessibility TF - EPUB 3 WG: Thu, Aug 12, at 14 UTC

Dear all,

The next con call of Accessibility task force (EPUB 3 WG) is scheduled on Thursday, August 12, 2021, at 14 UTC.
Local time: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Accessibility+task+force+meeting%3A+EPUB+3+WG&iso=20210812T14&p1=%3A&ah=1

The details of the conference line and IRC are below the agenda.

Proposed agenda:

1. Pull request for Media Overlays section: all meaningful text should also have audio.
PR:
https://github.com/w3c/epub-specs/pull/1759/files

Issue:
https://github.com/w3c/epub-specs/issues/1738

2. Start review of EPUB Accessibility specs and techniques.
Specs:
https://w3c.github.io/epub-specs/epub33/a11y/index.html

Techniques:
https://w3c.github.io/epub-specs/epub33/a11y-tech/index.html

3. Invoke discussion on a long standing topic:
As per the design of WCAG 2.x and EPUB Accessibility 1.x, The producer need to ensure that all Content Documents meet all the accessibility requirements for claiming conformance to EPUB Accessibility 1.x or WCAG 2.x.
The publishers find it challenging to meet this requirement of nearly zero tolerance, especially when they are publishing big publications.
I am not sure if we can do much about this at this stage, this issue will be addressed by WCAG 3.0. But it is worth starting a discussion.

4. Any other business.

EPUB accessibility specifications:
https://w3c.github.io/epub-specs/epub33/a11y/index.html

Techniques:
https://w3c.github.io/epub-specs/epub33/a11y-tech/index.html

Issue tracker:
https://github.com/w3c/epub-specs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3ACat-Accessibility

The IRC and conference details are:

IRC channel: #epub-a11y
server: irc.w3.org
port: 6665 or 6667

Zoom conference details and calendar invite:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-epub-wg/2020Nov/0000.html

With regards
Avneesh Singh