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From: L Snider
Date: Dec 8, 2014 6:22AM

HI Jennifer,

Thanks for sending George's email. I will definitely contact him.

A tangled web of players and formats...reminds me of born digital video in
the early 2000s-a bit of a mess, but one that will resolve at some point-I
hope???

Cheers

Lisa

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Jennifer Sutton < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Hello:
>
> I've not been following this thread closely, but I'll post this link, in
> case some interested in ebooks may be unaware of it.
> http://epubtest.org/
>
> Note that the last column relates to accessibility.
>
> And the community could always use testers, I expect.
>
> George Kerscher requested that I post a message here, on his behalf, and
> people may follow up with him if they have questions about epub or DAISY
> since George works both with the IDPF and the DAISY Consortium. Email:
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
>
> I'll also add that ibooks and Moby aren't, as far as I know, vanilla
> epub. They're variants of it, or at least ibooks is. Everybody's gotta do
> their own thing (though I sure sometimes wish they wouldn't). So, it's not
> always user agents that are "all over the place."
>
> Best,
> Jennifer
>
>
> > > >