1. Avneesh Singh Chief Operating Officer (Strategy & operations)
Global Specs for Accessible Publications Essential 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: ISO Project title: Digital Publishing - EPUB Accessibility - Conformance and Discovery Requirements for EPUB Publications Project reference: ISO/IEC NP Committee: 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. For more information you can visit : https://inclusivepublishing.org/
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