This document discusses establishing a baseline for creating accessible EPUB publications. It proposes that publications should:
1) Provide accessible content in EPUB 3 format, supported by reading systems that can present the full text across platforms and integrate with assistive technologies like screen readers.
2) Use the native semantics of HTML5 to structure content in a logical reading order and enable effective navigation.
3) Include alternative text descriptions for non-decorative images to convey information to all readers.
The document calls for collaboration across the publishing industry to develop these baseline requirements and certification processes to identify accessible publications, with the goal of continually raising standards over time.
Presented at the 2015 M-Enabling Summit on June 1st, 2015. For more information about various accessible mobile applications for reading please go to [http://www.daisy.org/tools/mobile-applications].
The Inclusive Publishing Initiative: Practicalities of Accessibility for the ...DAISY Consortium
London Book Fair 2017 presentation. Richard Orme focused on Google Foundation funded work to define a “Baseline for Accessibility”. This project is comprised of 4 strands: standards, conformance, reading systems and promotion – all vital in the next steps towards mainstream accessibility.
Finally, Certified Accessible Educational Materials from Publishers DAISY Consortium
George Kerscher, Charles LaPierre & Rachel Comerford explain how publishers can now claim conformance to WCAG 2.0. “Certified by Benetech” guarantees the conformance claims are true. The process follows the approved EPUB Accessibility Standard.
Presented at the 2015 M-Enabling Summit on June 1st, 2015. For more information about various accessible mobile applications for reading please go to [http://www.daisy.org/tools/mobile-applications].
The Inclusive Publishing Initiative: Practicalities of Accessibility for the ...DAISY Consortium
London Book Fair 2017 presentation. Richard Orme focused on Google Foundation funded work to define a “Baseline for Accessibility”. This project is comprised of 4 strands: standards, conformance, reading systems and promotion – all vital in the next steps towards mainstream accessibility.
Finally, Certified Accessible Educational Materials from Publishers DAISY Consortium
George Kerscher, Charles LaPierre & Rachel Comerford explain how publishers can now claim conformance to WCAG 2.0. “Certified by Benetech” guarantees the conformance claims are true. The process follows the approved EPUB Accessibility Standard.
Content Publishing is the process of planning, creating, producing,
distributing, and marketing content; and that applies to all kinds of digital content today from websites to videos to books.
This presentation was provided by Bill Kasdorf of Apex Content Solutions during the NISO Virtual Conference, Convergence: The Web and Publishing Onto the Web, held on May 17, 2017.
This presentation was provided by Jay Holloway and Binaebi Akah of the OCLC during the NISO Hot Topic Virtual Conference "Ebooks and Collections." The event was held on August 25, 2021
This presentation was provided by Charles LaPierre of Benetech during the NISO Virtual Conference, Convergence: The Web and Publishing Onto the Web, held on May 17, 2017.
This presentation was given by Todd Toler of John Wiley & Sons during the NISO Virtual Conference, Convergence: The Web and Publishing Onto the Web, held on May 17, 2017.
This presentation was provided by George Kerscher of Benetech during the NISO event "Making Content Accessible: How Can Publishers and Libraries Better Satisfy the Obligation?" The virtual conference took place on May 13, 2020.
This presentation was provided by George Kershcer of The DAISY Consortium, Jon R. Gunderson of The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Alicia Wise of Elsevier, during the NISO Webinar "Unprecedented Access: Improving the User Experience for People with Print Disabilities" which was held on December 8, 2010.
Who Does What to Make Great EPUB? How to Build an Airplane in Mid-Air - Sabin...BookNet Canada
Many of us have been working with the EPUB standard for several years, but one long-standing challenge for Canadian publishers, particularly small ones, is that the requirements for accessible EPUB 3 can seem very daunting. Recent work by Laura Brady shows that many Canadian publishers are still producing EPUB 2, and those who are producing EPUB 3 are not making great use of accessibility features.
To try to address some of the problems, we’re working on an accessible publishing summit to be held in November or January. The purpose of this summit is to better understand who can do what to create accessible EPUB files, and then explain this work to stakeholders along the EPUB publishing chain. Our overall goal is to support publishers in making their books accessible from the start — this approach both maximizes the market for reading, and saves taxpayer funds on alternate-format production for students and other readers who have print disabilities.
If a book is produced correctly, it will work with a variety of assistive technology tools without requiring further intervention. To get to that point, we need to agree about what our standards are, and then build an understanding of the workflows that are most likely to result in meeting those standards. This is what we hope to do at our summit, and then present at ebookcraft 2019.
March 19, 2019
ebookcraft.booknetcanada.ca
#Ebookcraft
2016年7月7日
IDPFBill McCoy氏:電子出版の将来展望
主催:電子出版制作・流通協議会/日本電子出版協会
International Digital Publishing Forum
International Trade and Standards Organization for the Digital Publishing Industry
The incorporation of the DAISY accessibility requirements into the non-proprietary EPUB 3 standard holds significant promise for the increased availability of commercial products that are useable, out of the box, by a wide range of consumers.
Speakers: Laurie Kaplan, ProQuest; Nettie Lagace, NISO. This program provides an update on several NISO projects potentially of interest to serials librarians, including PIE-J (Presentation and Identification of E-Journals), ODI (Open Discovery Initiative), KBART (KnowledgeBases and Related Tools), and OAMI (Open Access Metadata and Indicators). The projects are at different stages in their creation, publication and revision lifecycles, but all require community understanding and input. Participants will receive practical information on how the initiatives affect their daily work and how their experiences can shape the creation and uptake of consensus-based community standards in the library and information industry.
Content Publishing is the process of planning, creating, producing,
distributing, and marketing content; and that applies to all kinds of digital content today from websites to videos to books.
This presentation was provided by Bill Kasdorf of Apex Content Solutions during the NISO Virtual Conference, Convergence: The Web and Publishing Onto the Web, held on May 17, 2017.
This presentation was provided by Jay Holloway and Binaebi Akah of the OCLC during the NISO Hot Topic Virtual Conference "Ebooks and Collections." The event was held on August 25, 2021
This presentation was provided by Charles LaPierre of Benetech during the NISO Virtual Conference, Convergence: The Web and Publishing Onto the Web, held on May 17, 2017.
This presentation was given by Todd Toler of John Wiley & Sons during the NISO Virtual Conference, Convergence: The Web and Publishing Onto the Web, held on May 17, 2017.
This presentation was provided by George Kerscher of Benetech during the NISO event "Making Content Accessible: How Can Publishers and Libraries Better Satisfy the Obligation?" The virtual conference took place on May 13, 2020.
This presentation was provided by George Kershcer of The DAISY Consortium, Jon R. Gunderson of The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Alicia Wise of Elsevier, during the NISO Webinar "Unprecedented Access: Improving the User Experience for People with Print Disabilities" which was held on December 8, 2010.
Who Does What to Make Great EPUB? How to Build an Airplane in Mid-Air - Sabin...BookNet Canada
Many of us have been working with the EPUB standard for several years, but one long-standing challenge for Canadian publishers, particularly small ones, is that the requirements for accessible EPUB 3 can seem very daunting. Recent work by Laura Brady shows that many Canadian publishers are still producing EPUB 2, and those who are producing EPUB 3 are not making great use of accessibility features.
To try to address some of the problems, we’re working on an accessible publishing summit to be held in November or January. The purpose of this summit is to better understand who can do what to create accessible EPUB files, and then explain this work to stakeholders along the EPUB publishing chain. Our overall goal is to support publishers in making their books accessible from the start — this approach both maximizes the market for reading, and saves taxpayer funds on alternate-format production for students and other readers who have print disabilities.
If a book is produced correctly, it will work with a variety of assistive technology tools without requiring further intervention. To get to that point, we need to agree about what our standards are, and then build an understanding of the workflows that are most likely to result in meeting those standards. This is what we hope to do at our summit, and then present at ebookcraft 2019.
March 19, 2019
ebookcraft.booknetcanada.ca
#Ebookcraft
2016年7月7日
IDPFBill McCoy氏:電子出版の将来展望
主催:電子出版制作・流通協議会/日本電子出版協会
International Digital Publishing Forum
International Trade and Standards Organization for the Digital Publishing Industry
The incorporation of the DAISY accessibility requirements into the non-proprietary EPUB 3 standard holds significant promise for the increased availability of commercial products that are useable, out of the box, by a wide range of consumers.
Speakers: Laurie Kaplan, ProQuest; Nettie Lagace, NISO. This program provides an update on several NISO projects potentially of interest to serials librarians, including PIE-J (Presentation and Identification of E-Journals), ODI (Open Discovery Initiative), KBART (KnowledgeBases and Related Tools), and OAMI (Open Access Metadata and Indicators). The projects are at different stages in their creation, publication and revision lifecycles, but all require community understanding and input. Participants will receive practical information on how the initiatives affect their daily work and how their experiences can shape the creation and uptake of consensus-based community standards in the library and information industry.
Actions and Updates on the Standards and Best Practices FrontNASIG
This program will provide an update on several NISO projects potentially of interest to serials librarians, including PIE-J (Presentation and Identification of E-Journals), ODI (Open Discovery Initiative), KBART (KnowledgeBases and Related Tools), and OAMI (Open Access Metadata and Indicators). The projects are at different stages in their creation, publication and revision lifecycles, but all require community understanding and input. Participants will receive practical information on how the initiatives affect their daily work and how their experiences can shape the creation and uptake of consensus-based community standards in the library and information industry.
Laurie Kaplan
Director of Editorial Operations, ProQuest
New Providence, NJ
Director of Editorial Operations at ProQuest, facilitates the efforts of the international database and Serials Provider Relations departments. Throughout her career of over a decade at ProQuest, Laurie has successfully directed the international data team responsible for Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, Ulrichsweb, and the multinational databases in 360 Core. This depth of experience positions Laurie as a subject matter expert with previous presentations at Charleston, NASIG and Computers in Libraries on topics ranging from open access and metadata to linked data and serials. Earning MLIS from Rutgers University, JD from St. John's University School of Law, and BA from Lafayette College.
Nettie Lagace
Associate Director for Programs, NISO - National Information Standards Organization
Nettie Lagace is the Associate Director for Programs at NISO, where she is responsible for facilitating the work of NISO's topic committees and development groups for standards and best practices, and working with the community to encourage broad adoption of this consensus work. Prior to joining NISO in 2011, Nettie worked at Ex Libris, where she served for 11 years in a number of library and information provider-facing roles, most recently Product Director, working on the SFX link resolver, Verde electronic resource management software, and bX scholarly recommender service.
Rapid progress in information technology and electronic communications in the last few decades have profound impact on the way we gather, store, disseminate and consume information. Methodologies and tools for converting information to knowledge have also been very successful. All these have put a lot of pressure on traditional content storehouses like libraries to harness the new technologies for the benefits of their users.
Since Universities around the world own most of these libraries, they have been trying to embrace these newer technologies and have devised suitable methods that are beneficial to their users. They have created a new category of content called e-resources out of all forms of electronic documents and media. In the last few years, investments in these e-resources have increased many folds. Groups of universities have come together to collaboratively address the situation. In many cases, including India, Governments have also funded much of these efforts.
There are parallel efforts of creating additional knowledge resources by individuals for the consumption of individuals. In fact, the volume of effort in this area has been so large that lot of younger people are beginning to break away from traditional library and university system and greatly depend on these open sources. Proliferation of sources like Google, YouTube, Edx, Moocs and ResearchGate have been nothing short of explosive and has perhaps created the largest knowledge democracy.
In this talk, we look at the much of these developments, their implications and discuss a few use cases.
We have also suggested an architecture based on contemporary IT scenarios that will help to plan and setup an e-Resources infrastructure in a University that may be making efforts to either start it or upgrade their existing setup.
The talk concludes by suggesting a few areas of cooperation between the Universities and creating a scale that can dominate in the area of spreading validated information and create a widely spread knowledge-based society.
Handshake Between Content and Readers: Testing Mainstream Reading SystemsDAISY Consortium
Mainstream reading devices and apps do not guarantee information access for all
readers. All the hard work of enhancing an EPUB 3 document for people with
disabilities is lost if the EPUB 3 reader itself is not accessible.
By crowdsourcing accessibility evaluations of mainstream reading
systems in a systematic way and making these evaluations publicly available
developers and device manufacturers can be advised to make
specific improvements to enable access to information for all.
Thema webinar from BookNet Canada, June 2014BookNet Canada
Thema is a new international subject classification standard for books. It should be used in addition to BISAC (the North American subject classification standard). Download these slides for helpful information on what Thema is, why you should use it, and how to start implementing it.
Similar to Baseline for Born Accessible EPUB 3 (20)
Accessible portable content provides anytime/anywhere access to learning. See also
EPUB Accessibility 1.0 [http://www.idpf.org/epub/a11y/accessibility.html]
Making newspapers accessible: Production to playbackDAISY Consortium
Presented by Daniel Ainasoja in Paris at EEAF, June 8th, 2015.
For over 12 years, Daniel has been working for non-profit organizations developing software and hardware tools to make newspapers and books accessible for the visually impaired and print disabled. Daniel presently works as an International Sales Manager at Pratsam, CEO at the open source organization Kolibre and CEO at the Association of Swedish Talking Newspapers in Finland.
Improving Accessible Publication Delivery Globally With DAISY OnlineDAISY Consortium
[Presented at CSUN 2015] The DAISY Online Delivery protocol is a web service Application Programming Interface (API) that facilitates the delivery of digital content from service providers to end users. Can be used to deliver various types of accessible content (DAISY, EPUB, Braille, podcasts etc.). More information is provided on the DAISY Consortium website at [http://www.daisy.org/projects/daisy-online-delivery/].
Power of Social Media: Connecting Students of All Ages and AbilitiesDAISY Consortium
For people with a disability, such as a hearing, sight or mobility impairment, social media websites and applications have their own barriers. We discussed how the accessibility issues found in each of the most popular social media tools can be overcome. Special thanks to George Kerscher and Aaron Page for their insights.
Reading Systems Showdown: CSUN 2014 PresentationDAISY Consortium
E-readers (reading systems primarily used for consuming digital book content) and general purpose tablets with reading apps, such as the iPad, Kindle HD or Nexus 7, are becoming popular options for reading the expanding selection of publications available in electronic formats. Specialized players still have accessibility advantages, but developers are now attempting to make their products more accessible to people with visual and dexterity disabilities. Accessibility evaluations can assist educators, students, developers and manufacturers.
Inclusive Publishing in the Educational EnvironmentDAISY Consortium
Bernhard Heinser's presentation (Dublin, November 29, 2012: Universal Design for Digital Document Creation and Publication). There is a need for publishing standards, processes, tools and best practices that allow publishers to create, distribute, and sell accessible materials.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
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Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
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Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
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Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and Grafana
Baseline for Born Accessible EPUB 3
1. Baseline for Born Accessible EPUB
Implementing the Legislative Strategy:
Accessible Digital Publishing
within & beyond the legal threshold
George Kerscher
9th
European e-Accessibility Forum
June 8th
2015
2. Inclusive Publishing Industry
•trade and educational publishers
•journal and magazine publishers
•comics and Manga industry
•disability-focused organizations
•educational institutions
•governmental organizations
•tech companies
•standards organizations
3. Publishers ask: “What do I need to do
to make my publications accessible to
persons with disabilities?”
Agreement needs to be reached on the baseline features.
•It is not easy
•We must push the bar higher
•We must be practical
4. •Publication must provide accessible content in EPUB 3
(or future version)
•Reading system used must support EPUB 3 content
•Publication, in the context of the reading system,
must be useable with Assistive Technology (AT)
Consensus: All 3 components must be working or it is
impractical to include a given feature as a
requirement for accessibility in published documents.
EPUB 3 Designed for Everybody
Requirements
5. Today
Publishers can deliver the text of their publication in a well-
structured, logical reading order, even if images are used
for title or headings as long as ALT text is there.
•EPUB reading systems can present the full text of an EPUB
3 publication on every platform.
•Assistive Technology (AT) can integrate with reading
systems and speak the text using synthetic speech (TTS), as
refreshable braille using a Bluetooth device, or enlarge the
text on the screen.
Consensus: Well-structured text in a logical reading order is
a baseline requirement for a Born Accessible publication.
6. HTML 5 Content Structure
To benefit all readers, publishers must make use of the
native semantics of HTML 5 – starting point of accessible
content, foundation for digital publishing
This will enable:
•logical reading order
•effective navigation
•skipping and escaping content
Consensus: Native HTML 5 elements will be used to
correctly identify content structure
7. Images, ALT text & Additional Enhancements
•Images used for ornamental purposes
•Images & graphics can be made accessible using ALT text
•Images, charts, diagrams, maps, infographics…..convey
information that may need to be customized for different
types of learners
Consensus: Publishers will identify ornamental images. ALT
text (W3C A & AA guidelines) /
Accessible EPUB 3: Best Practices by Matt Garrish &
DIAGRAM’s Image Guidelines for EPUB 3. Coming: BISG
Quick Start Guide for Accessibility.
8. Metadata, Asserting Conformance
Metadata will be necessary for discovery, marketing, sales
and inclusion in educational coursework.
Consensus:
Metadata will identify the accessibility features of
publications that confirm to the baseline Born Accessible
agreed-upon features, as defined in the
ONIX code (List 196) and Schema.org which includes a set of
accessibility metadata
9. Enhancements to Born Accessible
Publications
•Adding value by using Diagrammar: A Framework for
Making Images and Graphics Accessible
•Republishing materials for persons who are not
technologically capable – the safety net
•Future enhancements delivered separately as annotations
•Reading system would integrate those annotations with
the commercially available Born Accessible version
•DAISY Consortium members make terrific partners to
make information fully accessible
10. Educational Publications and the EDUPUB
Profile of EPUB 3
•Modern educational publications in EPUB 3 format are
anticipated to use the EDUPUB profile
•Videos need to be captioned
•Support for MathML rapidly evolving
•Scripted components, widgets, assessments, 3D
(WebGL) demonstrations, data visualizations, SVG
Consensus: Educational materials will have additional
requirements in the baseline for Born Accessible EPUB 3
in the EDUPUB profile
11. Broadly Available EPUB 3 Authoring Tools
•Needed in education for course content
development
•Needed in governmental organizations for
publications
•Needed for everyday use by authors, students and
professionals
12. Conformance and Certification
•Epubcheck, use it now
•Pre-flight needed to assist with checking
conformance
•Self-certification linked to metadata
•External certification of publisher content
Consensus: Tools for evaluation, certification
approaches, approved guidelines training and
support will be topics for discussion
14. Raising the Bar
Consensus: The practical baseline features for
Born Accessible publications are expected to advance as
technology and work processes improve
15. Call to Action
•Everybody is invited to participate in the evolving
Inclusive Publishing Ecosystem
•Formal announcement will kick off the collaborative effort
•We do not expect to meet in-person, all virtual
•DAISY Consortium will help to drive
•Key principles: Consensus and practicality
•We need to raise the bar over time
Contact George Kerscher directly: kerscher@montana.com