[community] EPUB 3.1 Standard Update

[Taliesin Love Smith]

Yes, thanks Giovanni for sharing and thank you, Jon, for this summary!

I don't have any experience with the EPUB standard, and from your
assessment it will work much more like HTML (or together with HTML) which
will be great for accessibility and personalization (as you mention).

Thanks,
Taliesin

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Hung, Jonathan <jhung at ocadu.ca> wrote:

> This is great Giovanni, thanks for sharing!
>
> It looks like EPUB 3.1 can be summarized static HTML in a zip file.
>
> The most significant changes for me from EPUB 3.0.1 to 3.1 are:
>
>   *   HTML 5 and CSS is now supported - readers must support it, authors
> can use it.
>   *   Support for Digital Publishing Aria 1.0.
>   *   WCAG 2.0 support. EPUB 3.1 packages is “recommended” to conform to
> AA.
>   *   Relaxed scripting requirements (i.e. removed foreign resource
> fallback requirement for scripts if the resource is not listed in the
> spine).
>
> This should make authoring and personalization of EPUB content easier as
> the same best practices and tools used for web and accessibility can now be
> used for EPUB 3.1 natively. Hopefully this will also mean publishers do not
> have to go through a problematic conversion process from HTML to EPUB XML
> (something we’ve struggled with in our own research into EPUB 3).
>
> This should (hopefully) mean that AT users will get better experiences.
>
> The IDPF is aiming for a release candidate of the EPUB 3.1 spec in October
> 2016.
>
> - Jon.
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> On February 14, 2016 at 6:09:07 PM, Tirloni, Giovanni (gtirloni at ocadu.ca
> <mailto:gtirloni at ocadu.ca>) wrote:
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> A presentation about the EPUB 3.1 standard revision by Romain Deltour at
> the XML Prague 2016 conference (contains some useful links):
>
> http://rdeltour.github.io/xmlprague2016-epub31
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> The first draft is available for review:
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> http://idpf.org/news/first-editors-draft-of-epub-31-available-for-review
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> Giovanni
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