Re: EPUB tables in reading solutions

I've copied your comment to an existing issue in the EPUB 3 Community Group
GitHub repo: https://github.com/w3c/publ-cg/issues/49

I'll respond there.

Thanks!

Dave

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 12:12 PM Gregorio Pellegrino - Fondazione LIA <
gregorio.pellegrino@fondazionelia.org> wrote:

> Dear CG,
> recently at Fondazione LIA we have been working on an accessible EPUB 3
> with technical content. We realized that different reading systems have
> problems displaying complex tables that, although correctly structured in
> HTML and CSS, are cut in the reading mode (attached some screenshots of
> example).
>
> We have been confronted with Jiminy Panoz and EDRLab not finding a
> practical solution applicable.
>
> In our opinion we should find guidelines for EPUB authors and reading
> solutions, since more and more content producers want to produce academic,
> professional, scientific and not only narrative texts in EPUB.
>
> What could be the right way forward? Identify tables with particular
> attributes (ARIA or epub:type) for correct identification by reading
> solutions? Any other ideas?
>
> A good starting point could be the intervention of Toby Green, OECD
> (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) at EPUB SUMMIT
> 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YkYBmh8YWM#t=36m25s
>
> Gregorio
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