The accessibility of a publication is useful to know regardless of a person's abilities, as features such
- as the ability to make visual adjustments make for a better reading experience for everybody. This
+ as the ability to make visual adjustments make for a better reading experience for everybody. These guidelines
document proposes a shared framework for presenting publication accessibility metadata declarations in a
user-friendly manner — to offer the information to end users in a way that is easy to understand
regardless of their technical knowledge and is consistent across different publications and different
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Reading a publication is a very personal experience. For most people this is routine, and little
+ Reading a digital publication is a very personal experience. For most people this is routine, and little
consideration is given to how the title was obtained before it is read. Users may go to a bookstore,
search for the title to purchase online, or have the title selected for them by an instructor for a
class. Now consider that the person is blind and relies on assistive technology. The user needs that technology
- to assist them in the purchase process as well as to read the publication. The person may wonder: will
+ to assist them in the purchase process as well as to read the e-book. The person may wonder: will
the screen reader work with this title; are there image descriptions that will be spoken to describe
these images; are there page numbers which are accessible; is the reading order correct so a caution
after reading a paragraph which could be dangerous will be announced? All of these, and more
accessibility concerns are potential issues consumers have when trying to purchase and ultimately read a
- digital publication.Introduction
-
The good news is more and more publishers are creating publications that are Born Accessible (i.e., +
The good news is more and more publishers are creating digital publications that are Born Accessible (i.e., accessible from the outset, not fixed later) and getting the accessibility validation or audit done by independent organizations.
This document helps those who wish to render accessibility metadata directly to users understand how to +
These guidelines help those who wish to render accessibility metadata directly to users understand how to represent the accessibility claims inherent in machine-readable accessibility metadata in a user-friendly User Interface / User Experience (UI/UX). This document targets implementers such as - bookstores, retailers, distributors etc. Content creators will benefit from reading these Principles and + bookstores, retailers, distributors etc. Content creators will benefit from reading these guidelines and are encouraged to follow EPUB Accessibility 1.1 Conformance and Discoverability Requirements section and its techniques.
This document presents high-level principles without going into technical issues related to the +
This document presents high-level guidelines without going into technical issues related to the different metadata standards in the publishing industry.
Therefore, techniques are available that illustrate to developers how to retrieve data to show the information outlined in this document.
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All accessibility metadata is meant to be machine-readable – except for the accessibility summary - in this way accessibility metadata can be extracted and displayed uniformly across different publications and localized to different user interface languages.
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@The product details provide precious information about the usability of the book in relation to specific +
The product details provide precious information about the usability of the e-book in relation to specific user needs. The following information should always be displayed:
When focusing on the accessibility of a digital publication, three areas of key information come to +
When focusing on the accessibility of any digital publication, three areas of key information come to mind:
The other five areas provide details about specific features or shortcomings in publications. It is expected that these other areas of key information will give people what they need to make an - informed choice to read a particular title.
+ informed choice to read a particular e-book.This document does not define the order in which to show the key accessibility information; each