[community] EPUB 3.1 Standard Update
Tara Robertson
trobertson at langara.ca
Tue Feb 16 17:16:34 UTC 2016
This went by on a library listserv and might be of interest? Apologies for the formatting.
Subject: EDUPUB Alliance, EPUB Accessibility Meetings in Baltimore, February 24-25, 2016
EDUPUB Alliance, EPUB Accessibility Meetings in Baltimore, February 24-25, 2016 January 6, 2016
The next meeting of the EDUPUB Alliance<http://idpf.cmail20.com/t/y-i-dtkyykl-l-x/>, together with a related summit on EPUB Accessibility and Certification, will take place on February 24-25 2016 near Baltimore, Maryland. The events will be co-hosted by IDPF<http://idpf.cmail20.com/t/y-i-dtkyykl-l-m/> and IMS Globa<http://idpf.cmail20.com/t/y-i-dtkyykl-l-c/>l, in conjunction with IMS Global's next Quarterly Meeting, sponsored by University of Maryland College<http://idpf.cmail20.com/t/y-i-dtkyykl-l-q/>. The theme of day one will be "EPUB Accessibility as a Baseline" and will bring together speakers and participants to establish key requirements and critical tasks necessary for the EPUB ecosystem to fully support current and future accessibility mandates. The keynote speaker will be George Kerscher, Secretary-General of the DAISY<http://idpf.cmail20.com/t/y-i-dtkyykl-l-a/> Consortium and President of the IDPF Board of Directors. Day two till kick off with EDUPUB Alliance sessions focused on coordinating open standards for learning content and systems, followed by a technical workshop on EPUB certification implementation. A preliminary agenda has been published<http://idpf.cmail20.com/t/y-i-dtkyykl-l-f/> and registration is now open<http://idpf.cmail20.com/t/y-i-dtkyykl-l-z/> to all interested parties with options to attend both days ($200) or day one only ($150).
-----Original Message-----
From: community [mailto:community-bounces at lists.idrc.ocadu.ca] On Behalf Of Taliesin Love Smith
Sent: February-16-16 6:17 AM
To: Inclusive Design Community
Subject: Re: [community] EPUB 3.1 Standard Update
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
>
> The first draft is available for review:
>
> http://idpf.org/news/first-editors-draft-of-epub-31-available-for-revi
> ew
>
> Giovanni
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