![]() ![]() Q: Should the epub:type semantics be used in addition to ARIA roles?Ī:That’s an open discussion in the industry right now. One bright spot is that as newer generations of students come up, they are more inclined to EPUB and I think you’ll see a sea change when Kurzweil gets its update out. Plus we’ve got to do a better job of making publishers and their suppliers know that EPUBs should have page break markers and the page-list - everybody assumes there are no page breaks in EPUBs (because usually there aren’t!) but as I mentioned in the webinar, Apex has been doing that routinely for years. (DAISY and a group of university DSS offices are working with Kurzweil on that, because Kurzweil recognizes that EPUB is better.) That’s mainly because that’s what they’re familiar with and know how to deal with plus many of the systems that deliver content to them (e.g., Kurzweil 3000) don’t yet handle EPUB well. (Many don’t know about page end tags.) Do you see PDFs as inherently inaccessible because you can’t resize, change font, etc.? Or can PDFs be accessible too?Ī:PDFs can be made more accessible (usually with a lot of hand tagging and other laborious remediation), but still nowhere close to what an accessible EPUB 3 offers, for the reasons you mentioned (reflowing, changing fonts, etc.), which is why the standard has moved to EPUB 3.īut you’re right, one of the issues the industry is struggling with right now is that students still ask for PDFs. Q: We find that our customers (higher education students) still prefer PDFs over EPUBs because then their pages will look exactly like the instructors’ pages. I wrote a piece in Research Information recently about how now is the time for scholarly journal content to get accessible (if you’re interested), including the fact that the upcoming release of Atypon’s Literatum platform will generate EPUB 3s automatically for journal articles-a big step toward accessible journal articles (finally!). In fact it’s for any kind of publication, actually whether web-based or not. Q: Is this going to be focused exclusively on eBooks? Or also electronic publications that are web-based?Ī: Excellent question! It’s a common misconception that this is just for books. We hope these provide insight for you as well! More questions, or interested in learning more about accessible publishing best practices? Get in touch. In this post, we share the questions Bill received from publisher attendees (edited for anonymity, of course) and his response. We attempted to break down some of those barriers in our recent webinar with Bill Kasdorf, What you need to know to get accessibility right.Īs always, questions from attendees are illuminating for what the industry is thinking about and struggling to understand. Publishers are thinking more about accessibility, but there is, understandably, a lot of confusion around how to do it.
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