Re: Let's introduce ourselves

Hi everyone!

My name is Wendy Reid, I’m the Accessibility and Publishing Standards lead at Rakuten Kobo, a lifelong book nerd, and the chair of the EPUB3 WG and Audiobooks WG.

My main interests are accessibility, pushing books to be better, and working together to make things better.

Nice to meet so many of you!

Cheers,
Wendy

From: Liam R. E. Quin <liam@fromoldbooks.org>
Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 2:28 PM
To: W3C EPUB 3 Community Group <public-epub3@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Let's introduce ourselves
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Hello!

I've mostly been lurking here since i left W3C (after 17 years) in
2018, where i had led a lot of the XML work.

These days i mostly work for Paligo AB in Sweden, and do XSLT training
and XSLT/XML/XQuery consulting via Delightful Computing.

Why lurk? The state of epub and ebooks is very disappointing to me, and
although a lot of that is down to readers and devices, a lot also is
from missed opportunities, ranging from cross-book linking and domain-
specific searching through to typography & accessibility. A W3C Working
Group isn't usually a good place for leaps in forward design, since you
can't make a standard around experiments, but where else to watch &
sometimes gently prod people behind the scenes?

--
Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/
Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/
XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting.
Barefoot Web-slave, antique illustrations:  http://www.fromoldbooks.org