RE: Chemistry in published materials

George - assuming that the grant applies to any/all publications, I would be happy to work with you on also defining how this work would apply to PDF and getting that standardized as part of PDF/UA.

Leonard

From: George Kerscher <kerscher@montana.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 6:41 PM
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Subject: Chemistry in published materials

Dear EPUB Community Group, WP WG, and WAI Chairs,

Associated with a grant from the Department of Education in the USA, we are looking at how to provide published Chemistry content to the mainstream, and to persons with disabilities that use Assistive Technology (AT).

We are just starting this fact finding phase. ChemML has been mentioned, but we are not married to any particular solution. I am fairly sure we will need a great looking presentation, and we will need semantic information that can be explored chunk-by-chunk using AT.

I created an issue, number 66 in the EPUB Community Group with the label Best Practice (I hope I did this right!)
https://github.com/w3c/publ-cg/issues/66

Also, if you would like to email me separately off list, my email is kerscher@montana.com<mailto:kerscher@montana.com>

So, this kicks off this discovery phase.

Best
George


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