Proposed language on: -- [NISO sc34ballots] Groups - Ballot opened: "ISO/IEC NP 23761, Information technology - Digital Publishing - EPUB Accessibility: Conformance and Discovery Requirements"

Dear Publishing Business Group folks,
 
On the call today I took an action item to provide the planned vote on the
NISO ballot for ISO work on the EPUB Accessibility Conformance and Discovery
Specification.
 
Below is what I plan to submit:
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The DAISY Consortium votes Yes, with comments
 
Comments:
Reading from the submission provided:
 
Comment 1:
In the Co-ordination of work section: the phrase appears, "But there are no
plans to create W3C recommendations for EPUB Accessibility." I suggest this
be revised or removed. W3C has no formal current Chartered Working Group
with a mandate to move the EPUB Accessibility Conformance and Discovery
Specification forward, but the industry needs an International Standard for
acccessible EPUB publications as soon as possible. There is a great deal of
interest and work in this domain. It is expected that members working in W3C
will participate in the ISO work. 
It is certainly possible that a successor of EPUB Accessibility Conformance
and Discovery Specification version 1.0 becomes a W3C recommendation in the
future, and  Best practices will evolve as well as the techniques for
accessibility.
 
Comment2:
In the proposal there is a reference to the specification on the IDPF site,
but I suggest that the formal reference should be to the specification on
the W3C. See:
https://www.w3.org/Submission/epub-a11y/
 
George Kerscher will participate on behalf of DAISY through our membership
in NISO