Re: Self-review for the i18m horizontal review

This is a good start!

I think that "high-level overview of EPUB 3.4" should mention aural
rendering in general.

Regards,
Makoto



2026年2月7日(土) 16:30 Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>:

> Dear all,
>
> as you know, we have to start self-review for our core specs (the
> Annotation specs will be handled separately). We have been in contact with
> Fuqiao Xue, who leads this activity at W3C, and he asked to start the
> review from fresh.
>
> Following Fuqiao's response, I have duplicated our old i18n self-review,
> and updated it[1]. I have changed the references to point to the right
> documents, changed the document version numbers, etc. I have also added a
> history section, referring back to the previous i18n self-review[2]. I also
> went through the checks themselves, but I did not see any major necessary
> changes, ie, I believe our original self-check is still valid (as it
> should). (The real work was done years ago!)
>
> Furthermore, I also took a look at the closed i18n issues[3], and I do not
> think any of those should be re-opened as a result of our recent changes.
>
> If you are interested in this, could you take a look at [1], please? If we
> are all o.k., I can officially submit the necessary issue[4] to start the
> official process. My goal is to do this submission, if possible, on
> Thursday or Friday of next week.
>
> It is a wiki, so cannot handle PR-s; the best is if you raise a separate
> self-review issue, if necessary; for minor comments answering to this email
> is also fine.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ivan
>
> P.S. As an aside: we have a relevant label on our issue list, namely
> "i18n-tracker". Its description says: "Group bringing to attention of
> Internationalization, or tracked by i18n but not needing response." (The
> same issue labels exist for the other horizontals). We should use this
> label with care, because the i18n group is flooded with issues, but it may
> be useful nevertheless.
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/w3c/epub-specs/wiki/I18n-self-review,-EPUB-3.4
> [2] https://github.com/w3c/epub-specs/wiki/I18n-self-review,-EPUB-3.3
> [3]
> https://github.com/w3c/epub-specs/issues?q=label%3Ai18n-needs-resolution%20OR%20label%3Ai18n-tracker
> [4] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-request/issues/new/choose
>
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