White paper for your review prior to press release announcement

Dear SC,

 

Perhaps we could add this to the agenda for tomorrow. As part of the
communications around this, I was thinking that a blog post in the W3C space
would be good. As you can see for this white paper, the target audience  is
beyond the commercial publishing arena.

 

We wanted to give you a heads-up  about what we think will be an important
development in the availability of Born Accessible publications. The
attached white paper is titled,  "It's Time to Use the Modern Digital
Publishing Format for Your Organization's Documents

 

You can review the acknowledgements to see who helped in the creation of the
document published by the DAISY Consortium.

 

There are some important items:

*	Please do not redistribute. We plan to send out the press release
around September 10, and we do not want it put out there before that.
*	If you find any errors, misleading statements, or other issues,
please let  us know by sending an email to Sarah Hilderley and George
Kerscher both in the CC field.
*	We hope that this will begin greater mainstream use of Born
Accessible EPUB 3.
*	We took great care to not paint PDF negatively.
*	We expect that there will be other supporting publications that come
out. We would  appreciate being informed about your plans and if we can help
in any way, let us know.

 

Best

George

 

George Kerscher Ph.D.

-In our Information Age, access to information is a fundamental human right.

Chief Innovations Officer, DAISY Consortium

http://www.daisy.org <http://www.daisy.org/> 

Senior Advisor, Global Literacy, Benetech

http://www.benetech.org <http://www.benetech.org/> 

President, International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) 

http://www.idpf.org <http://www.idpf.org/> 

Member of the National Museum and Library Services  Board (IMLS)

http://www.imls.gov <http://www.imls.gov/> 

Chair Steering Council Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), at W3C

http://www.w3.org/WAI

Phone: +1 406/549-4687

Cell:+1 406/544-2466 

Email: kerscher@montana.com <mailto:kerscher@montana.com>