Call for review and comment: EPUB Accessibility: Conformance and Discovery

Dear Wai Interest Group,
 
The EPUB 3 Working Group's accessibility subgroup is delighted to announce
the first public Editor's Draft of the new specification "EPUB
Accessibility: Conformance and Discovery Requirements for EPUB
Publications," found at 
http://www.idpf.org/epub/a11y/accessibility.html.
 
EPUB 3 is based on HTML, CSS, and SVG, building upon the Open Web Platform.
Likewise, the EPUB Accessibility spec enriches the ongoing work of the Web
Accessibility Initiative (WAI), referencing WCAG 2.0 and WAI publications.
The EPUB Accessibility Spec  outlines the principles that will be used to
create techniques for conformance.
 
We believe the development of this specification will advance accessibility
in the digital publishing space, and we invite you to join us in this
effort. 
 
We are looking forward to your review and comments. To participate, please
go to the GitHub issue tracker at
https://github.com/IDPF/epub-revision/issues/711. 
 
Or you may send comments to Markus Gylling, CTO for the IDPF,
markus.gylling@idpf.org
 
The working group will review all comments and add specific topics as
appropriate.
 
I can also be reached directly via email for questions or comments:
kerscher@montana.com
 
Best
George
On behalf of  the EPUB Accessibility sub-group chairs, Charles LaPierre and
Avneesh Singh
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George Kerscher Ph.D.
-In our Information Age, access to information is a fundamental human right.
 
Chief Innovations Officer, DAISY Consortium
Http://www.daisy.org
Senior Officer, Accessible Technology Learning Ally Together It's Possible 
http://www.LearningAlly.org 
President, International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) 
http://www.idpf.org