Re: ISO/IEC standardization of EPUB: Accessibility

I suppose that the EPUB Accesssbility 1.1 will
be done in the community group as proposed by
a Avneesh and George.

Regards,
Makoto

2017年5月8日(月) 16:46 Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>:

> Makoto,
>
> one comment below on a possibly side-issue
>
> ---
> Ivan Herman
> World Wide Web Consortium
> Publishing@W3C Technical Lead
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>
> 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
>
> --

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Makoto