George, A valid, original ePUB, composed as publisher intended it to be is preferable of course. However we work with some institutions that have a mandate to provide accessible content. Their workflow involved a convoluted combination of PDF, OCR and Microsoft Word. PDF to EPUB makes things easier :) Dmitry Dmitry Markushevich mail : dmitrym@evidentpoint.com<mailto:dmitrym@evidentpoint.com> direct : 1-604-243-2524<tel:(604)%20243-2524> office : 1-604-241-2711<tel:(604)%20241-2711> skype : dmarkush On 8 Nov 2018, at 16:17, George Kerscher wrote: Hi, Rather than taking a PDF and converting to EPUB, I would hope we could get the authoring tool and/or the workflow to produce the semantically rich EPUB 3 natively. Best George -----Original Message----- From: Dmitry Markushevich (dmitrym@evidentpoint.com) <dmitrym@evidentpoint.com> Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 11:37 AM To: Leonard Rosenthol <lrosenth@adobe.com> Cc: MURATA Makoto <eb2m-mrt@asahi-net.or.jp>; bobbytung@w3.org; 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 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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