W3C [PBG] Conference Day Agenda for August 30th/31st

Hello Publishing Business Group members,

Please find below the agenda for the next PBG Conference Day calls for Americas/Europe on Tuesday, August 30th,  to be held at [0]  and for Americas/Asia on Tuesday, August 30th/Wednesday, August 31st to be held at [1], via the Zoom link in the meeting invites.

W3C IRC: http://irc.w3.org/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http*3A*2F*2Firc.w3.org*2F&data=02*7C01*7CLAUDRAIN*40hachette-livre.fr*7Cf1f4b36643b342c072ff08d79c8273be*7Cf881a2c50a89483181b1c7846c49594d*7C0*7C0*7C637149956414432943&sdata=fRlwrrNqKLfWvIy6pt4d2F379ZmHqDYjXD4yiFM1dp0*3D&reserved=0__;JSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJQ!!PH0vZokp8wwQNw!25oU4tNXeepf6MLFJgmEgrCcS44aixe3HOVLuXI9tycKoDi7ROE_9FLthRwLKTxc53z3AI5uHfP5NaRlvOLMMK0KUUfJUByOcTr-2Wk2DA$>  (IRC channel #pbg).


Demystifying Accessibility Agenda



  *   A11Y updates and news – Cristina Mussinelli, Secretary General  Fondazione LIA
     *   What is happening across the EU
     *   Discussion of how to plan when the potential risk for noncompliance is hard to assess
  *    PRH’s Approach to Frontlist, Backlist and a11y for 90K+ Ebooks – Liisa McCloy-Kelley,  SVP, Director Ebook DevOps Penguin Random House
     *   How we establish a baseline for a11y
     *   What a11y features we include in our titles and consider best practice
     *   Where we are trying to go above and beyond for great a11y experiences
     *   How we are thinking about automation vs. handwork or vendor work
     *   What our approach is for evaluating, prioritizing and updating our back catalog
     *   Where we are struggling
  *   A11Y Work with the W3C Publishing CG – Zheng Xu, CEO of Wysebee Inc.
     *   Where the a11y TF is with resolving open issues on accessibility metadata
     *   Best practices work being picked up
     *   How to bring an a11y issue to the CG for group discussion and input
  *   Open Dialogue – Everyone
     *   We’ll open the discussion to talk about what issues people are facing, what questions are out there and helping to get to a place where everyone has a plan to be ready to support accessible content across Europe and across their catalogs by June 2025.
We’ll talk about next steps to keep this conversation going and whether it makes sense to bring in more people to share best practices or more reading systems to talk about how they are approaching the implementation to support all of this.  We hope to record these sessions and make them available to everyone after the meetings. Please bring your colleagues and share with anyone you think might benefit from participating.
We look forward to a great discussion next week!
On behalf of PBG co-chairs,
Liisa McCloy-Kelley, Daihei Shiohama and Cristina Mussinelli

[0] https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=W3C+PBG+Americas+Europe+Conference+Day+Meeting&iso=20220830T12&p1=179&ah=1&am=30

[1] https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=W3C+PBG+Americas+Asia+Conference+Day+Meeting&iso=20220830T20&p1=179&ah=1&am=30