Re: Help needed: EPUB 3.01 revision referencing a11y metadata spec

Shlomo

Worth noting that EPUB 3.0 already has facilities for including ONIX data within the e-pub package, and ONIX has had the ability to carry detailed accessibility information for a couple of years now, alongside the bibliographic and trade-related information with which you may be familiar (see Issue 15 here<http://www.editeur.org/14/Code-Lists/#Code%20lists%20issue%20latest> for the original introduction). The various attributes in ONIX were designed with the help of the DAISY Consortium and other accessibility groups, with the aim of providing the practical information a print-impaired reader might require at the point of purchase or access.

Now I don't claim that ONIX is the complete answer here, and ONIX has a wider function because it is used separate from the content document as well as embedded within the content document. But we should try to ensure that the semantics of any accessibility information are interoperable.

Graham


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On 1 Sep 2013, at 08:24, Shlomo Sanders wrote:

Getting Accessibility into the spec would be more than great.
If not planned for in advance this causes unnecessary dev work afterwards when it needs to be fixed.

Thanks,
Shlomo

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From: Karen Coyle [mailto:kcoyle@kcoyle.net]
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Folks,

The first four terms in the accessibility proposal could be useful for us as well, I think.

accessMode (text, auditory, tactile....) mediaFeature (text, captions, largePrint, ChemML...) isAdaptationOf (URL) hasAdaptation (URL)

I think it would be worth working with this group *quickly* to see if there's anything major that we need that isn't there at this time. We should assume that we could add other types later.

kc

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Dear schema.org<http://schema.org> folks,

We need some help here. The proposal at:
http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/Accessibility

Is under consideration by  the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF)'s working group for inclusion in the EPUB 3.01 revision that is quickly working towards ISO approval as a Technical Specification.

It would be terrific if this could reach a status in the next few weeks to make it into this spec. EPUB 3 references HTML5 and other specifications that are not full W3C recommendations, but a status of accepted public draft or better is necessary for inclusion in the spec.

If somehow we could get the accessibility metadata spec to this state, I would appreciate it.

>From my POV, having this type of metadata in the package file for each
EPUB
3 publication  would go a long, long way in promoting digital publications that are accessible to persons with disabilities.

I have copied Gerardo and Matt with this request, who are in a better position to answer technical questions.

Best
George


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