>In my understanding, they use images or PDF files. For accessiblity reasons, I am not happy. > PDF files can be made as accessible as an EPUB, though admittedly with some more work (depending on the authoring environment). You will find that PDF/UA (the PDF Universal Accessibility standard) has been adopted as a national standard in numerous countries around the world as an accepted solution for accessible publications. Leonard From: MURATA Makoto <eb2m-mrt@asahi-net.or.jp> Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 8:48 AM To: bobbytung@w3.org Cc: W3C Publishing Business Group <public-publishingbg@w3.org>; Dave Cramer <dauwhe@gmail.com>; yanni@dpublishing.org.tw Subject: Re: Thoughts on rechartering and the future of publications on the web Bobby, It might be easy to test EPUB 3.2 standard on reading system developed by global vendor. But it's not easy for local vendor those who developed their own reading system to support EPUB 3.2 without a reasonable road map. In Japan, EBPAJ's template and authoring guide do not cover "HTML based Fixed Layout" and media overlay function. In Taiwan, I'm working on a project followed EBPAJ's template to let publisher raise the bar of quality of digital publications. I'll try to get publishers' feedback with TDPF in Taiwan on a conference next month. It may not easy to get consensus within Japanese publishers and ebook vendors, I'd like to know Murata-san's comment on this. It is true that the EBPAJ profile does not allow CSS-based HTML fixed layout. Interoperability of such CSS-based HTML fixed layout is not at all great. It is probably worse than in North America or Europe, because some EPUB RSs in Japan are not based on webkit or other browser engines, and also because we might have both vertical writing and horizontal writing within a single book. Then, what do publishers do when a book requires complicated layout? In my understanding, they use images or PDF files. PDF files may be wrapped by EPUB. For accessiblity reasons, I am not happy. Regards, Makoto
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