Accessibility metadata display guide for digital publications 2.0 third and final public draft available for review

Dear Publishing Community,

 

Please feel free to circulate broadly!

 

The Accessibility task force of the W3C Publishing Community Group is
pleased to announce the third draft of the "Accessibility metadata display
guide for digital publications 2.0". 

 

This is the final draft. We anticipate organizations to create
implementations based on this final draft. We anticipate minor suggestions
to be made as the implementations are developed. Please provide your
valuable feedback on or before April, 11, 2025.

 

The drafts are available at the following URLs:

- Guidelines:
https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/a11y-meta-display-guide/2.0/guidelines/

- EPUB Techniques:
<https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/a11y-meta-display-guide/2.0/techniques/epub
-metadata/>
https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/a11y-meta-display-guide/2.0/techniques/epub-
metadata/

- ONIX Techniques:
<https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/a11y-meta-display-guide/2.0/techniques/onix
-metadata/>
https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/a11y-meta-display-guide/2.0/techniques/onix-
metadata/

 

We have added to this final draft all the strings displayed by the guide.
The strings in US English are contained in the canonical
<https://github.com/w3c/publ-a11y/tree/main/a11y-meta-display-guide/2.0/draf
t/localizations/en-US>  JSON file found on GitHub. We anticipate providing
localized versions of this file moving forward and encourage anyone who
would like to help with the localizations/translations or to review these
localizations as they become available.

 

Please file a GitHub issue <https://github.com/w3c/publ-a11y/issues/>  with
your feedback. If you are uncomfortable filing a GitHub issue, feel free to
send me the comment and I will file the issue on your behalf.

 

Sincerely,

Avneesh Singh

on behalf of the W3C Publishing Community Accessibility task force