Memo for my action item: Review the Internationalized Text Layout Requirements draft

1. CSS and XSL-FO in the 20th century

Poor internationalization

2. Requirements for Japanese Text Layout

Requirements only, no mechanisms
Traditional typography for printed materials


Working Group Note (2009 June)
Working Group Note (2012 April)
Working Group Note (2020 August)

JLreq has had lots of impacts on CSS, EPUB, Unicode, and so forth

No accessibility considerations

3. Lots of **Req

Attempts to mimic the success of JLReq

https://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/projects/
https://www.w3.org/TR/typography/

4. Requirements for Japanese Digital Text Layout

Started in 2022

Digital text on screen
Accessibility
Requirements only, no mechanisms

5. Text to Speech of Electronic Documents Containing Ruby: User Requirements

https://w3c.github.io/ruby-t2s-req/

6. My estimation

When can we have good understanding of A11Y requirements on **Req typograpy

JLreq: 10 years?
Others: 20 years?

How can we make our specifications less harmful then?

Regards,
Makoto