Re: [a11y] Final review of User experience guide for accessibility metadata: Deadline Jan 21, 2021

Please have a look at Daniel's comment about the "audiobook" property vs EPUB3 with Media Overlay on a Thorium issue #1332. <https://github.com/edrlab/thorium-reader/issues/1332#issuecomment-763486512> 

In fact the question is : should EPUB3 publications with Media Overlays get the EPUB3 "accessModeSufficient : auditory" metadata?

Note that some reading systems will be able to switch to an audio-first UI (this is the case for Thorium, which has a "captions" view for Media Overlays), but other reading systems will not

A lack of interoperability may lead to misunderstandings. 

Best regards
Laurent

> Le 18 janv. 2021 à 11:27, Avneesh Singh <avneesh.sg@gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> Thanks Laurent for going through the document in so much detail.
> Regarding:
> "While every user has different accessibility needs, meeting the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 requirements, even at level A, is a baseline that ensures a book will be widely accessible."
>  
> Right now we are strongly recommending level AA in EPUB Accessibility 1.1, while explaining why it is the recommended level, and why publishers should not settle on level A. The further discussion is at https://github.com/w3c/epub-specs/issues/1459
> We will keep this document in sync whenever we raise the floor in EPUB Accessibility.
>  
> Great to see that you are implementing these recommendations well in the Thorium/Readium 2 world!
>  
> With regards
> Avneesh
>  
> From: Laurent Le Meur
> Sent: Friday, January 15, 2021 23:20
> To: Avneesh Singh
> Cc: public-epub3@w3.org ; public-publishingcg@w3.org
> Subject: Re: [a11y] Final review of User experience guide for accessibility metadata: Deadline Jan 21, 2021
>  
> Hi Avneesh,
>  
> In section 2 I read:
> "While every user has different accessibility needs, meeting the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 requirements, even at level A, is a baseline that ensures a book will be widely accessible."
> 
> I suppose that this will evolve to level AA if AA is finally chosen as outcome of https://github.com/w3c/epub-specs/issues/1459. This would be a matter of consistency.
> 
> Apart from that, when we start seing EPUB files with accessibility metadata in the wild (I hear that there are currently 350 such ebooks in the global "French" catalog, tagged via ONIX; but I'm not sure the corresponding EPUB files have equivalent metadata), we'll add to Thorium Reader the features described in this document.
> - A search filter in the catalog, on the boolean "Accessible" criteria associated with WCAG A or AA
> - A11y information in the ebook info panel, starting with the "universal man" logo (visually appealing there at least for sighted users) with alt text "Accessible Publication" I think.
> 
> The fact that a publication is an Audiobook is already clear in Thorium, therefore we won't duplicate it with an "Audiobook" property. UI details will be defined by a designer before implementation. 
> 
> Best regards
> Laurent
> 
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> 
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>> Le 13 janv. 2021 à 15:27, Avneesh Singh <avneesh.sg@gmail.com> a écrit :
>>  
>> Dear all,
>>  
>> This is a reminder for final review of User experience guide for displaying accessibility metadata.
>> The review period will end on Thursday, January 21, 2021. Therefore please suggest improvements on or before this date.
>>  
>> Further details are in the following email.
>>  
>> With regards
>> Avneesh Singh
>> From: Avneesh Singh
>> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2020 21:52
>> To: public-epub3@w3.org ; public-publishingcg@w3.org
>> Subject: [a11y] Final review of User experience guide for accessibility metadata: Deadline Jan 21, 2021
>>  
>> Dear all,
>>  
>> This is the announcement for the final review of User experience guide for displaying accessibility metadata. 
>> The review period will end on Thursday, January 21, 2021. Therefore please suggest improvements on or before this date.
>>  
>> Thanks to Gregorio, Madeleine and Charles for editing the documents and harmonizing schema.org accessibility metadata with ONIX accessibility metadata. And many thanks to all participants of accessibility task force for providing the valuable guidance.
>>  
>> The list of documents to review are:
>> - User experience guide for displaying accessibility metadata
>> - Techniques for schema.org accessibility metadata
>> - Techniques for ONIX accessibility metadata
>>  
>> User experience guide for displaying accessibility metadata is at the following link. It also points to the two techniques documents.
>> https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/UX-Guide-Metadata/principles/
>>  
>> The issue tracker for suggesting improvements is at:
>> https://github.com/w3c/publ-a11y/issues
>>  
>> Wishing all of you a very Happy New Year!
>>  
>> With regards
>> Avneesh Singh
>