I am just forwarding this. I hope it reaches people with interest in accessibility and purchasing ebooks or metadata. Please feel free to forward to other parts of CORE if you can. I'm not a member so can't forward it myself to sections like Metadata and Collections for example. Thank you!
Adina
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 11:34:07 -0600
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Subject: [Athen] User Experience Guide for accessibility metadata 2.0
first public draft available for review
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Hello Higher Ed folks,
This was circulated yesterday in publishing communities. If you have a
University press, please make sure they are aware of the accessibility
metadata requirements.
IMO the Principles is a great read for everybody!
Best
George
Dear Publishing Community,
Please feel free to circulate within your company!
As we all know by now, the European Accessibility Act comes into force in
June 2025, and it requires that end users and educators have access to
information about the accessibility of the publications they plan to
purchase or assign to students.
With this in mind, we are pleased to announce that the first public draft of
the "User Experience Guide for the Display of Accessibility Metadata 2.0" is
now available for review and comment. We are seeking feedback from the
publishing, bookselling, and library communities, as well as from
distributors of digital books.
This set of guidelines is an essential read for many in the publishing and
distribution chain:
The Principles document
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backbone of the guidelines and is essential for everybody to read.
The ONIX metadata Techniques
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ata/index.html> and EPUB Accessibility metadata Techniques
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ata/index.html> explain the logic of how the metadata gets converted to
meaningful statements that will resonate with end users. Every software
developer/coder implementing the presentation in a catalogue needs to study
these techniques, but it is also recommended that anyone responsible for
metadata in a publishing house review them
Comments are most welcome, and we ask that you file a GitHub issue
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If you are uncomfortable filing a GitHub issue, feel free to send me the
comment and I will file the issue on your behalf.
Principles :
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ONIX Meta data techniques :
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ata/index.html>
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EPUB accessibility metadata techniques:
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Best
George, on behalf of the W3C Publishing Community Group Accessibility
Taskforce
George Kerscher Ph.D.
-In our Information Age, access to information is a fundamental human right.
Chief Innovations Officer, DAISY Consortium
Cell:+1 406/544-2466
Email: <mailto:kerscher@montana.com> kerscher@montana.com
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Adina Mulliken
Social Work Subject Specialist & Associate Professor
Hunter College, CUNY
New York, NY
She/Her/Hers,They/Them/Theirs
am2621@hunter.cuny.edu(212) 396-7665
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