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From: Jennifer Sutton
Date: Mar 3, 2013 9:29PM

Greetings, WebAIM:

I spent about 15 minutes with Google in order to pull together the
following resource set about EPub 3. It's less "Benetech-centric"
than what has been posted so far. I'm a fan of standards, not a
specific organizational approach, so that's where I always start.

I hope many will find this collection useful.

Links are below my name. Numbering is for tracking, rather than to
denote prioritization.

If I've missed anything, I hope others will contribute.

Jennifer


1. Book by Matt Garrish from O'Reilly Media:
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025283.do

2. Visit the site of the International Digital Publishing Forum
(IDPF) which is the standards-making body for ePub:
http://www.idpf.org

3. Forums on the IDPF site:
http://idpf.org/forums

4. EPUB 3 Accessibility Guidelines
http://idpf.org/accessibility/guidelines/

5. EPub Check, for validation:
http://code.google.com/p/epubcheck/

6. A recent thread on the Access Technology in Higher Education
email list about accessible ePub production:
http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/pipermail/athen-list/2013-February/007170.html

7. Creating accessible eBooks - RNIB:
http://www.rnib.org.uk/professionals/solutionsforbusiness/publishing/publishertechnical/ebooksaccessible/Pages/accessible_ebook_creation.aspx

Shortened:
http://bit.ly/12zfaPG


8. Content on SlideShare, related to the DAISY Consortium and some
is ePub3, as well:
http://www.slideshare.net/daisyconsortium