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From: Jennifer Sutton
Date: May 2, 2016 10:41AM

I'm taking the liberty of cross-posting to WebAIM from the WAI Interest
Group list.
Best,
Jennifer



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Subject: Call for review and comment: EPUB Accessibility: Conformance
and Discovery
Resent-Date: Mon, 02 May 2016 15:06:31 +0000
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Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 09:05:59 -0600
From: George Kerscher < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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Dear Wai Interest Group,

The EPUB 3 Working Group's accessibility subgroup is delighted to
announce the first public Editor's Draft of the new specification "EPUB
Accessibility: Conformance and Discovery Requirements for EPUB
Publications," found at

http://www.idpf.org/epub/a11y/accessibility.html.

EPUB 3 is based on HTML, CSS, and SVG, building upon the Open Web
Platform. Likewise, the EPUB Accessibility spec enriches the ongoing
work of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), referencing WCAG 2.0 and
WAI publications. The EPUB Accessibility Specoutlines the principles
that will be used to create techniques for conformance.

We believe the development of this specification will advance
accessibility in the digital publishing space, and we invite you to join
us in this effort.

We are looking forward to your review and comments. To participate,
please go to the GitHub issue tracker at
https://github.com/IDPF/epub-revision/issues/711.

Or you may send comments to Markus Gylling, CTO for the
IDPF, <EMAIL REMOVED>

The working group will review all comments and add specific topics as
appropriate.

I can also be reached directly via email for questions or comments:
<EMAIL REMOVED>

Best

George

On behalf ofthe EPUB Accessibility sub-group chairs, Charles LaPierre
andAvneesh Singh

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George Kerscher Ph.D.

-In our Information Age, access to information is a fundamental human right.

Chief Innovations Officer, DAISY Consortium

Http://www.daisy.org

Senior Officer, Accessible Technology Learning Ally Together It's Possible

http://www.LearningAlly.org

President, International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF)

http://www.idpf.org