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Accessibility is a difficult concept to define. There’s no single magic bullet solution that
will make all content accessible to all people. Perhaps that’s a strange way to preface a
book on accessible practices, but it’s also a reality you need to be aware of. Accessible
practices change, technologies evolve to solve stubborn problems, and the world becomes
a more accessible place all the time.
But although there are best practices that everyone should be following, and that will
be detailed as we go along, this guide should neither be read as an instrument for
accessibility compliance nor as a replacement for existing guidelines.
The goal is to provide you with insights and ideas into how to begin making your
publications richer for all readers at the same time that you make them more accessible.
Proliferating usability guidelines and muddying the waters of compliance is not its
intent. There are areas that would take a book unto themselves to explore in detail in
relation to the use of HTML5 content within EPUB, such as the Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines (WCAG) and Web Accessibility Initiative’s Accessible Rich Internet
Applications (WAI-ARIA). Whenever issues extend beyond what can be covered in
these best practices, pointers to where you can obtain more information will be included.
Don’t fall into the trap of hand-picking accessibility.
It is also naturally the case with a standard as new and wide-ranging as EPUB 3 that
best practices will evolve and develop as the features it offers are explored and implemented.
This guide will endeavor to make clear whenever uncertainty exists around an
approach, what alternatives there are, and where you should be looking to watch for
developments.
You need to be thinking about accessibility and planning good content practices from
the outset if you’re going to make the most of the features EPUB 3 has to offer. This
guide will be your map, but you have to be willing to follow it. |
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