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From: Romain
Date: Mar 18, 2016 12:45PM

Sorry, quick correction: IBM's tool is named "Digital Content Checker", the "Automated Accessibility Checker" is a different service (but apparently related, I don't know the details).

Romain.

> On 18 Mar 2016, at 19:37, Romain < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> 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
>> >> >> >> >