Re: User Experience Guide for accessibility metadata 2.0 first public draft available for review

Excellent news!  We are preparing out materials for what to tell publishers at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October, and I would love to have something forward looking that can talk about how PDF accessibility claims can be represented for those who do not want to use ONIX to send information to retailers and distributors (like us!).

Please tell me how I can be involved in this work!

Rick Johnson | Co-Founder and Vice President of Solutions Engineering and Accessibility
VitalSource Technologies, LLC
get.vitalsource.com <https://get.vitalsource.com/>



From: Leonard Rosenthol <lrosenth@adobe.com>
Date: Monday, September 9, 2024 at 6:18 AM
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Subject: Re: User Experience Guide for accessibility metadata 2.0 first public draft available for review
As the W3C has recently partnered with the PDF Association (https://pdfa.org<https://pdfa.org/>) on producing PDF Accessibility material – I think that would be welcome by all.

@Duff Johnson<mailto:duff.johnson@pdfa.org> (cc’d) is leading that coordination.

Leonard

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Subject: Re: User Experience Guide for accessibility metadata 2.0 first public draft available for review

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I would be especially interested in, and happy to participate in the creation of, a way to represent PDF files and their metadata using these principles.

Rick

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On Sep 9, 2024, at 5:31 AM, Avneesh Singh <avneesh.sg@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Leonard,
Indeed the principles can be used by any format, but we go into details of EPUB 3.
I will include this topic in agenda of our regular calls to figure out how we can clarify this in a better way in the document.

With regards
Avneesh
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Subject: Re: User Experience Guide for accessibility metadata 2.0 first public draft available for review

I am a bit confused by this document, Avneesh.

The document’s title, and a few references internally, seem to imply that this document is for Accessibility Metadata for *any* format – in fact, you specifically call out PDF and MP3’s early on.   However, all recommendations are tied to EPUB and don’t address these other formats.

On the assumption that the committee does not wish to provide recommendations for formats other than EPUB, I would recommend that you change the title of the document to make it clear that it is only for EPUB.   And also remove all reference to non-EPUB formats.

Thanks,
Leonard

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Subject: User Experience Guide for accessibility metadata 2.0 first public draft available for review

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Dear Publishing Community,

Please feel free to circulate within your company!

As we all know by now, the European Accessibility Act comes into force in June 2025, and it requires that end users and educators have access to information about the accessibility of the publications they plan to purchase or assign to students.

With this in mind, we are pleased to announce that the first public draft of the “User Experience Guide for the Display of Accessibility Metadata 2.0” is now available for review and comment. We are seeking feedback from the publishing, bookselling, and library communities, as well as from distributors of digital books.

This set of guidelines is an essential read for many in the publishing and distribution chain:

The Principles document<https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/UX-Guide-Metadata/2.0/principles/> is the backbone of the guidelines and is essential for everybody to read.
The ONIX metadata Techniques<https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/UX-Guide-Metadata/2.0/techniques/onix-metadata/index.html> and EPUB Accessibility metadata Techniques<https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/UX-Guide-Metadata/2.0/techniques/epub-metadata/index.html> explain the logic of how the metadata gets converted to meaningful statements that will resonate with end users. Every software developer/coder implementing the presentation in a catalogue needs to study these techniques, but it is also recommended that anyone responsible for metadata in a publishing house review them

Comments are most welcome, and we ask that you file a GitHub issue<https://github.com/w3c/publ-a11y/issues>.

If you are uncomfortable filing a GitHub issue, feel free to send me the comment and I will file the issue on your behalf.

Principles: https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/UX-Guide-Metadata/2.0/principles/

ONIX metadata techniques: https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/UX-Guide-Metadata/2.0/techniques/onix-metadata/index.html

EPUB accessibility metadata techniques: https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/UX-Guide-Metadata/2.0/techniques/epub-metadata/index.html

Issue tracker: https://github.com/w3c/publ-a11y/issues


Thanks
Avneesh Singh
Chair, Accessibility task force - Publishing CG
COO, DAISY Consortium