Re: New fundamental test book and covers JeanKap

+1 to Deborah’s second option. It comes across as the most inclusive and
straightforward approach IMO.

On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 6:54 PM <deborah.kaplan@suberic.net> wrote:

> I feel like metadata is a red herring here, because while it's one of the
> use cases, the examples I gave (comics and picture books) are of cases
> where the art should be described, as meaningful images. This means there
> is a clear use case for cover alt being available to a book reader,
> regardless of options for encoding metadata. This means there are three
> plausible solutions:
>
> 1. Require reading systems to report any cover alt to AT, in some way,
> perhaps with visually hidden text marked as doc-cover.
>
> 2. Require reading systems to make the cover available to all readers, as
> well as AT, as an optional page that can be read in the reading order.
>
> 3. Tell content creators that if content from the cover is meaningful to
> the reading experience, they need to including it as a page in the reading
> order. (This is more or less what we do now.)
>
> Three is the status quo and results in an inconsistent and confusing state
> of affairs.  Two is what I've always wished we do, but I have heard plenty
> of others in publishing who dislike having the cover in the reading order.
> We ideally should do one or two.
>
> Deborah
>
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