SESSION 2. Accessible Books Publishing / Production
1. Why standards matter?
Makoto Murata
Tuesday 20th August 14:30-16:00
Abstract ＆ Presentation :
Accessibility of publications is not possible without the support of publishers, bookstores, libraries, and reading systems. EPUB 3 and EPUB Accessibility 1.0, which are standards published by IDPF, W3C, and ISO/IEC, help these players to interwork for better accessibility.
Moreover, web standards such as HTML and CSS provide a basis of accessibility of publications. An upcoming extension to CSS is expected to help those Japanese dyslexia users who cannot divide character sequences into words.
2.1_Why Standards Mattter, Makoto Murata.pdfBio :
Keio University, Project Professor
Murata graduated from Kyoto University in 1982 and holds Ph.D in Engineering from Tsukuba University. He was a member of the W3C XML Working Group, which created XML 1.0. As the lead of the internationalization subgroup of the IDPF EPUB Working Group, he contributed to the internationalization of EPUB 3. He now participates in Publishing@W3C as well as ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 ( Document description and processing languages ).
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