transition to inclusive epub 3 eco system avneesh singh co-chair, ties project
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Transition to Inclusive EPUB 3 eco System
Avneesh Singh
Co-chair, TIES project
Objective
Facilitate the DAISY production houses to migrate to inclusive publishing system using the EPUB 3 specifications.
3 Dimensional approach
• Production processes and systems (Migration to accessible EPUB 3
• Publisher relationships (relationship between DAISY production centres & publishers)
• Consumption of accessible content (Reading systems)
Navigable Audio-Only EPUB 3 Guidelines
• Navigable audio-only books form 90% of DAISY collection
• Working draft of Navigable Audio-only EPUB 3 Guidelines:
http://www.daisy.org/ties/navigable-audio-only-epub3-guidelines
• Navigation on basis of Sections, pages & skippable structures
Braille production from EPUB 3
• EPUB 3 is text centric, great source for producing Braille
• Potential to automate 90% to 95% of Braille production
• But the remaining 5% to 10 % requires special treatment
• Most of times this 5% to 10% is the most important component of the publication
• Need capability to associate the specially treated Braille (embosser ready Braille) with the publication.
Braille production from EPUB 3 contd.
Approaches identified are:
• W3C Open Annotations
• John Boyer’s UTML mark-up
• DIAGRAM content model.
DIAGRAM Content Model
• Tactile element can point to external Braille files like BRF, ASCII arts, Unicode Braille, SVG etc.
• DIAGRAM xml containing the tactile element can be referred by the the EPUB 3 publication by using describedby or describedat attributes
Survey hosted by TIES Production Group
• 37 DAISY producing organizations responded to the survey
• Most organizations produce Leisure reading, education books with simple mark-up & children books
• A few produce Education books with complex mark-up & Newspapers
• 17 has either introduced EPUB 3 or have started experimental EPUB 3 production.