Re: [a11y] Final review of User experience guide for accessibility metadata: Deadline Jan 21, 2021

Hi Laurent, hi everyone,
I would say we have reached (at least) one thousand epub including
accessibility metadatas produced thru WordToEPUB, mainly by NGOs.
I still have difficulties to explain to producers the importance of those
metadatas as we do not see them displayed anywhere. As a fallback we now
propose to add a metadata page at the end of the content, but it will help
us a lot if we have a reading software including the features described in
this document.
Best regards,
Gautier.




Le ven. 15 janv. 2021 à 18:52, Laurent Le Meur <laurent.lemeur@edrlab.org>
a écrit :

> Hi Avneesh,
>
> In section 2 I read:
> "While every user has different accessibility needs, meeting the Web
> Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 requirements, even at level A,
> is a baseline that ensures a book will be widely accessible."
>
> I suppose that this will evolve to level AA if AA is finally chosen as
> outcome of https://github.com/w3c/epub-specs/issues/1459. This would be a
> matter of consistency.
>
> Apart from that, when we start seing EPUB files with accessibility
> metadata in the wild (I hear that there are currently 350 such ebooks in
> the global "French" catalog, tagged via ONIX; but I'm not sure the
> corresponding EPUB files have equivalent metadata), we'll add to Thorium
> Reader the features described in this document.
> - A search filter in the catalog, on the boolean "Accessible" criteria
> associated with WCAG A or AA
> - A11y information in the ebook info panel, starting with the "universal
> man" logo (visually appealing there at least for sighted users) with alt
> text "Accessible Publication" I think.
>
> The fact that a publication is an Audiobook is already clear in Thorium,
> therefore we won't duplicate it with an "Audiobook" property. UI details
> will be defined by a designer before implementation.
>
> Best regards
> Laurent
>
>
>
>
> Le 13 janv. 2021 à 15:27, Avneesh Singh <avneesh.sg@gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> Dear all,
>
> This is a reminder for final review of User experience guide for
> displaying accessibility metadata.
> The review period will end on Thursday, January 21, 2021. Therefore please
> suggest improvements on or before this date.
>
> Further details are in the following email.
>
> With regards
> Avneesh Singh
> *From:* Avneesh Singh
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 17, 2020 21:52
> *To:* public-epub3@w3.org ; public-publishingcg@w3.org
> *Subject:* [a11y] Final review of User experience guide for accessibility
> metadata: Deadline Jan 21, 2021
>
> Dear all,
>
> This is the announcement for the final review of User experience guide for
> displaying accessibility metadata.
> The review period will end on Thursday, January 21, 2021. Therefore please
> suggest improvements on or before this date.
>
> Thanks to Gregorio, Madeleine and Charles for editing the documents and
> harmonizing schema.org accessibility metadata with ONIX accessibility
> metadata. And many thanks to all participants of accessibility task force
> for providing the valuable guidance.
>
> The list of documents to review are:
> - User experience guide for displaying accessibility metadata
> - Techniques for schema.org accessibility metadata
> - Techniques for ONIX accessibility metadata
>
> User experience guide for displaying accessibility metadata is at the
> following link. It also points to the two techniques documents.
> https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/UX-Guide-Metadata/principles/
>
> The issue tracker for suggesting improvements is at:
> https://github.com/w3c/publ-a11y/issues
>
> Wishing all of you a very Happy New Year!
>
> With regards
> Avneesh Singh
>
>
>

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Gautier Chomel
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