Re: Draft EPUB Survey: Feedback requested

Hi Dae and all,

As we discussed in SC call, I have filled in dummy answers to test the accessibility. Please reset the survey before announcing it.
Overall the survey is accessible. 
During a thorough run, I also discovered some points for improvements. These are as follows:

I know that there are limitations in survey monkey. Just want to highlight that the complete introduction paragraph on the first page is marked as heading but it should be regular text instead of heading. But it is not a critical issue.
Paragraph starts from: EPUB in one form or another has been around for twenty years. As we head into this next decade, we want to take a moment and assess where we are and where

group start     14.  Do you produce audio synchronized books with SMIL overlays?  
We should also have an option for "Specialized publication for people with disabilities"

group start     36.  Do you include image descriptions for all non-decorative images?  
Is the focus only on extended descriptions or on alt text also. If this question wants to know about the both then it is better to use "text equivalent of images" or mention both image description and alternate text.

This paragraph of for Governmental and Corporate Documents can be improved.
EPUB is the primary format for most ebooks today. But with the release of WordToEPUB, all popular authoring tools, including Google Docs, LibreOffice, and Pages, now support saving to EPUB. This makes EPUB a viable option not just for ebooks, but for many other types of documents. Even IBM has decided to distribute all documentation in EPUB 3 instead of PDF.

It can be simplified as and notion of comparison can be reduced as:
EPUB is the primary format for most ebooks today. Now all popular authoring tools, including MS Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice, and Pages, support saving to EPUB. This makes EPUB a viable option not just for ebooks, but for many other types of documents. Even IBM has decided to distribute all documentation in EPUB 3.

group start     76.  How important is it to you that your publications can be opened easily inside a browser?  
Better to rephrase it:
group start     76.  How important is it to you that your publications can be opened without installing a reading system or Ebook reader, and can be opened easily by a commonly available software like a browser?  

The following question is not clear to me.
group start     78.  How could Publishing@W3C improve communication across the entire ebook ecosystem? If there’s a problem, how do we find out who has power to fix it.

group start     83.  What part of the publishing ecosystem do you represent? Select all that apply.  
There is oo option for "other".


With regards
Avneesh








EPUB in one form or another has been around for twenty years. As we head into this next decade, we want to take a moment and assess where we are and where we as a global publishing community want and need to go next. How well is EPUB working? What could be improved? What should the future of EPUB and digital publishing formatting look like? We’ve assembled quite a large number of questions, about how people work with EPUB today, what problems they have, and what we’ve heard so far about what they want in the future. We hope that this information will provide valuable input to the future work on EPUB and related formats within the framework of the Publishing@W3C activity, in particular to the W3C’s EPUB 3 Community Group and the Publishing Business Group, as well as all of us who work with EPUB. We’ve organized the survey into sections for different parts of the ecosystem, but feel free to answer any question in any section if you have something to say. Please also feel free to skip any questions. Please share this survey with anyone you think may have something to say—we want as many answers as possible.
The survey has eight sections:
Section 1 for Publishers and Authors
Section 2 for EPUB Creators and Developers
Section 3 for Retailers and Reading Systems
Section 4 for People who Read Ebooks
Section 5 for Educators
Section 6 for Governmental and Corporate Documents
Section 7 on Information and Communication
Section 8 on Final Thoughts


From: Dave Cramer 
Sent: Thursday, February 6, 2020 3:50
To: W3C Publishing Steering Committee 
Subject: Draft EPUB Survey: Feedback requested

Hi PubSteerCoFolks!

We have a draft of the survey ready in SurveyMonkey. You can actually take the survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PT2MMJV

I've been working on the survey organization, which is somewhat constrained by what SurveyMonkey allows. 


Right now my major concern is about Sections 5 for Educators, and Section 6 for Governmental and Corporate Publications. Many of the questions in these sections may come across as proselytizing. I wonder if we can integrate these sections into the rest of the survey, while also reducing the number of questions (we have 85 right now). We are not focusing on other specific sectors of the industry in the same way, and I have also worked on language to make most of the questions less book-specific (hi Bill!) and perhaps a tiny bit less trade-specific. 


Please provide feedback by email. You can take the survey to see how it feels, but don't put your thoughtful answers in just yet :)

Thanks,

Dave