Objections to EPUB

Dear SC,

 

I am in process of developing a white paper and supporting webinars
promoting EPUB.

 

The working title right now is, "Born Accessible EPUB as an alternative to
Accessible PDF".

 

The target audience is Governmental institutions, corporate publications and
educational materials produced by professors.

 

Windows has no default EPUB reader. This creates issues, because people who
click on an EPUB may get the "deer in the headlights" effect on how the heck
to open an EPUB file.

 

This is really a big issue. We, DAISY, are being asked to provide solutions,
but is really a problem bigger than DAISY and accessibility.

 

I would like to bring up this issue to the SC and perhaps we can provide
guidance, and it is not to point to Digital Editions, sigh.

 

Corporations want a simple statement on what to do; they are looking for a
simple boilerplate they can include on their sites that provides a link to
get an App to open EPUB. There are defaults on Mac, iOS,  Android, and
Chrome. 

 

Perhaps a simple link to download Thorium for Windows 10 from the Microsoft
Store, and an additional link for more Apps on other systems, and with
guidance for accessibility, of course.

 

Where can we help solve this business issue?

 

Talk to you tomorrow.

 

Best

George

and Android, and Chrome, but not on Windows.

 

 

 

 

 

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> http://www.w3.org/WAI

Phone: +1 406/549-4687

Cell:+1 406/544-2466 

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