Re: ISO/IEC standardization of EPUB: Accessibility

Makoto,

one comment below on a possibly side-issue

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Ivan Herman
World Wide Web Consortium
Publishing@W3C Technical Lead
http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/
ORCID: 0000-0003-0782-2704


On 8 May 2017, 06:24 +0200, MURATA Makoto <eb2m-mrt@asahi-net.or.jp>, wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
>
> I would like to propose to standardize  EPUB accessibility
> 1.1 at ISO/IEC as a standalone specification, after W3C
> publishes it as a W3C Note.

Although it is not mandatory in the case of W3C Notes, it is better if such an explicit plan is listed in the charter of an Interest or Working Group. However, at this moment, the EPUB Accessibility Note is not part of the publishing charter. The only explicit document that is listed as a target for a Note is latinreq (and there are some general statements about publishing test suites or best practice documents).

At the present stage of the chartering (a few days before the closing of the ballot) I must admit I am uneasy about adding such a work into the charter; the work will already be significant and the manpower may be tight. (Unless of course we are talking about simply re-stamping the current document as a Note without any changes.)

I wonder whether ISO/IEC really cares. The document is a member submission[1], i.e., it already has a certain level of W3C identity.

Cheers

Ivan


[1] https://www.w3.org/Submission/2017/SUBM-epub-a11y-20170125/



> In other words, it should be
> detached from EPUB 3.0 or 3.1.
>
> There are three reasons:
>
>   - As I wrote in another e-mail,  I am concerned about
>     creating an ISO/IEC Technical Specification (and
>     International Standard) from EPUB 3.1.
>
>   - EPUB Accessibility is applicable to any EPUB
>     publication, even if the content conforms to EPUB 2
>     or EPUB 3.0.
>
>   - Although EPUB Accessibility 1.0 is a part of
>     EPUB 3.1, we would rather like to promote upcoming
>     EPUB Accessibility 1.1
>
> To standardize EPUB accessibility 1.1 as an ISO/IEC
> technical specification, we have to use the normal process.
> First, a new work item proposal has to be submitted to JTC1.
> Second, a Draft Technical Specification has to be created and
> sent out for ballot.  I hope to finish the New Work Item Proposal
> in the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/JWG7 meeting in Tokyo.  I am wiling
> to help by becoming a project editor and a New Work Item Proposal
> submitter.
>
> Regards,
>
> ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG4 Convenor
> Head of Delegation of the Japanese SC34 mirror
> Makoto