Why Standards Matter: They Allow People to Work Together for Better Accessibility of Publications

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dc.audienceAudience::Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section
dc.audienceAudience::Equitable and Accessible Library Services Section
dc.conference.date20-21 August 2019
dc.conference.placeAlexandria, Egypt
dc.conference.sessionTypeLibraries serving Persons with Print Disabilities with Library Services to People with Special Needs
dc.conference.titleEquitable library services for everybody including persons with print disabilities
dc.conference.venueBibliotheca Alexandrina
dc.congressWLICIFLA WLIC 2019 - Athens, Greece
dc.contributor.authorMurata, Makoto
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-24T09:13:44Z
dc.date.available2025-09-24T09:13:44Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractAccessibility 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.en
dc.identifier.relatedurlhttps://2019.ifla.org/conference-programme/poster-sessions/
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/6705
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.keywordEPUB
dc.subject.keywordAccessibility
dc.subject.keywordCSS
dc.subject.keywordJapanese
dc.subject.keywordDyslexia
dc.titleWhy Standards Matter: They Allow People to Work Together for Better Accessibility of Publicationsen
dc.typeArticle
ifla.UnitSection:Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section
ifla.UnitSection::Equitable and Accessible Library Services Section
ifla.oPubIdhttps://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/2735/

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