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Global Specs for Accessible Publications Essential for EU Accessibility Act Implementation

Learn about the crucial specifications for implementing the EU Accessibility Act in publications. Discover the common requirements for conformance and how to develop accessibility publishing and checking tools. Ensure accessibility throughout the complete supply chain.

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Global Specs for Accessible Publications Essential for EU Accessibility Act Implementation

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  1. Global Specs for Accessible PublicationsEssential for EU Accessibility Act Implementation Avneesh Singh Chief Operating Officer (Strategy & operations)

  2. Specifications are crucial for implementation of EU Accessibility Act for publication • Provides a set of common requirements for conformance and highlighting violations. • Provides the base for development of accessibility publishing and checking tools in the market. • Provides a universal standard to the complete supply chain for accessibility conformance.

  3. Accessibility is essential for Complete Supply Chain • What if publisher produces accessible publication but.. • Your aggregator does not support accessibility • Your retailer does not expose accessibility metadata and does not provide accessible user interface • Your reading system does not support accessibility Each and every node of the supply chain need to conform to same accessibility requirements.

  4. Threat: Fragmentation of Standards

  5. We must prevent fragmentation of accessibility standards Digital publications market is international (beyond EU)

  6. Confusion in production, confusion in supply chain.

  7. Suboptimal reading experience for people with disabilities.

  8. Existing standard for accessible publications EPUB Accessibility Conformance and Discovery specifications 1.0 • Build on WCAG • Adds publishing specific accessibility requirements and accessibility metadata requirements. • Designed at abstract layer to enable its application on formats other than EPUB also • Originally developed by International Digital Publishing Forum • Maintained by World Wide Web Consortium • Progressing towards becoming ISO Standard.

  9. EPUB Accessibility Conformance & Discovery Specs W3C page: http://www.w3.org/Submission/epub-a11y/ISO Project title: Digital Publishing - EPUB Accessibility - Conformance and Discovery Requirements for EPUB PublicationsProject reference: ISO/IEC NP 23761Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34/JWG 7 Current Status: Committee Draft

  10. Accessibility Checking Tools Tools are essential for implementation of the accessibility specification: • DAISY Ace (Accessibility Checker for EPUB) • DAISY SMART (Simple Manual Accessibility Reporting Tool) • Ace plugin for Sigil • Ace at backend of Born Accessible Content Checker

  11. Adoption of EPUB Accessibility Conformance & Discovery Specification Pearson, U.S. Hachette Livre, France Wiley, U.S. Macmillan Learning, U.S. Fondazione LIA, Italy national library of Korea, Korea Réseau Canopé, France Kogan Page, U.K. and more

  12. Revolutionary Era We are in beginning of a revolution, we have a life time opportunity to achieve the era of born accessible publications. Lets come along for a common worldwide standard for accessible publications.

  13. Thank you. asingh@daisy.org For more information you can visit : https://inclusivepublishing.org/ http://www.daisy.org/

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