- From: George Kerscher <kerscher@montana.com>
- Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 11:14:59 -0600
- To: <public-vocabs@w3.org>
- Cc: "Gerardo Capiel" <gerardoc@benetech.org>, "Matt Garrish" <matt.garrish@bell.net>
Dear 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 George Kerscher Ph.D. -In our Information Age, access to information is a fundamental human right. Secretary General, DAISY Consortium http://www.daisy.org Senior Officer, Accessible Technology Learning Ally originally Recording For the Blind & Dyslexic http://www.learningally.org President, International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) http://www.idpf.org Member of the National Museum and Library Services Board (IMLS) http://www.imls.gov Chair Steering Council Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), a division of the W3C http://www.w3c.org/wai Phone: +1 406/549-4687 Cell:+1 406/544-2466 Email: kerscher@montana.com
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