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From: Romain
Date: Mar 18, 2016 12:37PM

Hi,

First, since this is my first email to this list, let me briefly introduce myself: I'm Romain Deltour, doing software and standards development for the DAISY Consortium. I'm involved in IDPF's EPUB WG and W3C's DPUB IG. I'm also a contributor to EpubCheck, IDPF's EPUB conformance checker.

Back to the email's subject :)

There are not many tools that can help checking WCAG for EPUB. The only one I know is the Automated Accessibility Checker part of IBM's Bluemix services. But I can't vouch for it since I've only very quickly tested the trial version, and with very basic content.

Also, it happens that we just launched a DAISY project (last month in Baltimore [1]) to improve the state of accessibility in EPUB. One of the deliverables is precisely an open-source accessibility checking tool. It's too early for the details, but it will highly likely rely on one of the existing open-source web accessibility checkers...

If you want to know more, watch this space (the website is young and still evolving):
http://inclusivepublishing.org/

Best,
Romain.

[1] http://www-03.ibm.com/able/accessibility_research_projects/bluemix_services.html
[2] http://inclusivepublishing.org/


> On 18 Mar 2016, at 15:56, _mallory < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Hi,
> someone on twitter said they're currently saving ePUBs as a .zip
> and testing page by page, and they wondered if there were any
> tools that could check at least some of the WCAG2 guidelines?
>
> I did a browse of the more recent ePUB threads on the webAIM
> site but they seemed to be more about the ePUB3 standard and
> creating ePUBS. I didn't search very far back though so if
> someone knows there's a thread, just tell me there is one and
> I'll search harder :)
>
> cheers,
> Mallory
> > > >