[BlindMath] FW: Announcing new and improved EPUB "Fundamental Accessibility Tests for Reading Systems"

[Rasmussen, Lloyd]

Standards for EPUB files and best practices for their creation are continuing to be refined.
Not only must there be accessible publications, but the developers of browsers, screen readers, apps and standalone specialized devices need structured feedback on how well the accessible information is presented and made useable.
If anyone is inclined to put some serious time into evaluating reading systems, this is a good time to get started. How well do these systems do for speech output? For braille output? For dealing with publications that have sidebars, footnotes, multiple levels of headings, etc.? As we go beyond the basic book that is announced now, how do we proceed with image descriptions, math and other notation?

Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Staff Engineer
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress
Washington, DC 20542   202-707-0535
http://www.loc.gov/nls/
The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress, NLS.

From: transition-to-accessible-epub at lyris.dundee.net <transition-to-accessible-epub at lyris.dundee.net> On Behalf Of George Kerscher
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2019 9:15 AM
To: Transition to accessible EPUB <transition-to-accessible-epub at mail.daisy.org>
Subject: [RS] Announcing new and improved EPUB "Fundamental Accessibility Tests for Reading Systems"

Dear Transition to Accessible EPUB and Diagram Standards folks,

We are delighted to announce the release of the new and improved "Fundamental Accessibility Tests for Reading Systems" by the DAISY Consortium!

This title was ingested yesterday at epubtest.org and is available for download from:
http://epubtest.org/testsuite/

Once you download it, you will find that the file name has changed with the date in the file name.

All of us involved with testing are encouraged to immediately start testing your favorite Reading Systems and Apps; we want to get the new test results up ASAP to show off  the great reading tools out there. The results are currently out of date and our efforts on testing will replace those old scores.

In addition to the new Fundamental title, we have two other titles that we are focusing on. One is for  extended descriptions where we are wanting to get  feedback on the various approaches for including extended descriptions. The other is for the inclusion of MathML in EPUB titles.

We are always ready to help and if you have any questions, feel free to contact us on list or directly at: kerscher at montana.com<mailto:kerscher at montana.com>

Best
George



George Kerscher Ph.D.
-In our Information Age, access to information is a fundamental human right.
Chief Innovations Officer, DAISY Consortium
http://www.daisy.org
Senior Advisor, Global Literacy, Benetech
http://www.benetech.org
President, International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF)
http://www.idpf.org
Member of the National Museum and Library Services  Board (IMLS)
http://www.imls.gov
Chair Steering Council Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), a division of the W3C
http://www.w3c.org/wai
Phone: +1 406/549-4687
Cell:+1 406/544-2466
Email: kerscher at montana.com<mailto:kerscher at montana.com>