Re: EPUB Accessibility: Discovery of the Writing Direction (DRAFT 1.0)

Ivan,

Fantasai suggested that option but she was not sure if
browser vendors like it.  We might want to try it after
we can demonstrate that a lot of users really care.

Regards,
Makoto

2020年11月29日(日) 21:25 Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>:
>
> (cc Koji Ishii, Richard Ishida, and Florian Rivoal, they know way more than I do about this.)
>
> Thanks Makoto,
>
> just thinking out loud for the future… wouldn't it be a better approach to have a media query dimension in CSS media queries on the writing direction? CSS has this notion of (Block flow direction) in[1] but I am not sure it can bound to media queries[2,3]. This would make the IDPF specific classes obsolete...
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> I realize that is a longer term solution that should be raised by the CSS WG. Just asking at this point...
>
> Cheers
>
> Ivan
>
>
> [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/css-writing-modes-4/#block-flow
> [2] https://drafts.csswg.org/mediaqueries-4/
> [3] https://drafts.csswg.org/mediaqueries-5
>
>
>
>
> On 29 Nov 2020, at 07:10, MURATA <eb2mmrt@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear colleagues,
>
> Here is another document from the Japanese
> DAISY consortium.
>
> https://1drv.ms/w/s!An5Z79wj5AZBgtUx_1os2PNRrYkDjA?e=v9qSpH
>
> It summarizes discovery requirements for
> accessible EPUB publications according
> to user preferences on the writing direction
> (horizontal or vertical).
>
> I hope to register Schema.org metadata
> and ONIX metadata based on this
> document.  (BTW, Keio University is
> already a member of EDItEUR for this
> registration.)
>
> Regards,
> MURATA Makoto, Keio University
>
>
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