Re: [minutes] Publishing Steering Committee 2020-05-15

Dear Ralph,
I've prepared a summary of the two possible processes the EU commission can follow that I think it is more clear and complete.
If you think useful you may use it to update my intervention in the minutes.

I am at your disposal for any further information you may need
Cristina

EU Commission can have two different processes:

- ask for a mandate to an EU Standardization organization to create an EU Harmonized Standard, in this case this standard organization should verify if there are already existing standard and evaluate if they can considered as an EU Standard. The EU process is long – two/three years - and may have as an outcome a different standard from the existing one. This is the process EU will follow to verify the ISO version of EPUB Accessibility Specification 1.0 or other W3C specifications that will not automatically be considered as acceptable. For publishers the length of the process and the risk of having a different standard may be problematic. This is the process in which W3C had been involved for the WCAG after a mandate was issued for the definition of the standards for the Web directive (EN 301 549: The European Standard for Digital Accessibility http://mandate376.standards.eu/standard)

- adopt a technical specification. In this case the Commission do not ask for an mandate but the technical specification to be adopted by the Commission should comply with some requirements. To be accepted as EU technical specification had to be created by no profit organizations, as an open format, in transparency and with stakeholders consensus, and fully comply with all the requirements foreseen in the Directive.
This means that if we want to propose a W3C specification we need to provide a document assessing the process we followed to create it  and the fact that all the Directive requirements are included.
The process is much faster and for the publishing industry it the preferred one, because all the digital publications available on the market by 2025 should comply with the defined requirements. It will be a problem if in the meantime publishers use different requirement to produce accessible titles that should then be modified to comply with the ones adopted by the Commission.

In both these case EU Commission may accept more than one specification for digital publication accessibility (ie. PDF, Word)

EU Timing
Commission will decide which process to follow for the definition of the standard for the products included in the EU Act in June 2021.
It will probably consider at the same time to start the process of definition of the standard for the services but it not defined yet.
If we can work in parallel with this timing it will be the best option.


Il giorno 15/05/20, 22:11 "Ralph Swick" <swick@w3.org> ha scritto:

    The record of today's Publishing Steering Committee meeting is

       https://www.w3.org/2020/05/15-pbgsc-minutes.html


    Topics:

       1. Key items from this week's (Japan-time) Business Group discussion
       2. EPUBCheck fund raising status
       3. Deltour family support
       4. EPUB Accessibility work

    Summary of action items

    1. Avneesh, George, Cristina, Ivan propose some text on EPUB A11y for
    the EPUB 3 WG charter
    2. Garth to get Liisa and Leslie to respond

    Thanks once more to Dave for scribing!

    -Ralph



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