Re: Thoughts on rechartering and the future of publications on the web

On 8 Nov 2018, at 7:43, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:

> > 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.

There are tools (of which we make one) that convert PDFs to semantically 
valid EPUBs. In combination with an accessible reader this makes 
everything accessible.

Dmitry

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Received on Thursday, 8 November 2018 18:56:20 UTC