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Transition to Inclusive EPUB 3 eco System

Transition to Inclusive EPUB 3 eco System. Avneesh Singh Co-chair, TIES project. Objective. Facilitate the DAISY production houses to migrate to inclusive publishing system using the EPUB 3 specifications. 3 Dimensional approach.

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Transition to Inclusive EPUB 3 eco System

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  1. Transition to Inclusive EPUB 3 eco System Avneesh Singh Co-chair, TIES project

  2. Objective Facilitate the DAISY production houses to migrate to inclusive publishing system using the EPUB 3 specifications.

  3. 3 Dimensional approach • Production processes and systems (Migration to accessible EPUB 3 • Publisher relationships (relationship between DAISY production centres & publishers) • Consumption of accessible content (Reading systems)

  4. Navigable Audio-Only EPUB 3 Guidelines • Navigable audio-only books form 90% of DAISY collection • Working draft of Navigable Audio-only EPUB 3 Guidelines: http://www.daisy.org/ties/navigable-audio-only-epub3-guidelines • Navigation on basis of Sections, pages & skippable structures

  5. Braille production from EPUB 3 • EPUB 3 is text centric, great source for producing Braille • Potential to automate 90% to 95% of Braille production • But the remaining 5% to 10 % requires special treatment • Most of times this 5% to 10% is the most important component of the publication • Need capability to associate the specially treated Braille (embosser ready Braille) with the publication.

  6. Braille production from EPUB 3 contd. Approaches identified are: • W3C Open Annotations • John Boyer’s UTML mark-up • DIAGRAM content model.

  7. DIAGRAM Content Model • Tactile element can point to external Braille files like BRF, ASCII arts, Unicode Braille, SVG etc. • DIAGRAM xml containing the tactile element can be referred by the the EPUB 3 publication by using describedby or describedat attributes

  8. Survey hosted by TIES Production Group • 37 DAISY producing organizations responded to the survey • Most organizations produce Leisure reading, education books with simple mark-up & children books • A few produce Education books with complex mark-up & Newspapers • 17 has either introduced EPUB 3 or have started experimental EPUB 3 production.

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