[Athen] IAAP Webinar: EPUB3: Marching to Replace PDF as the Standard for Accessible Published Materials (19 August 2015)

[Gunderson, Jon R]

Link:
http://www.accessibilityassociation.org/content.asp?contentid=161

EPUB3: Marching to Replace PDF as the Standard for Accessible Published Materials
Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Time: 11:00 a.m. Eastern (UTC - 4 hours)
Length: 1.5 hours
Speakers: George Kerscher, Secretary General of the DAISY Consortium and Senior Officer of Accessible Technology-Learning Ally, and Becky Gibson, Senior Technical Staff Member, Accessibility, at IBM
Target Audience: Educators, authors, and corporate facilitators interested in learning more about EPUB and the options for using EPUB to create accessible materials
Skill Level: Beginner and Intermediate

This seminar will provide an update on the current state of the art regarding EPUB. We will drill down into the following high-level topics: development and adoption of EDUPUB, status of the EPUB 3.01 specification, review of EPUB reading systems, EPUB testing, and EPUB authoring.


Jon Gunderson, Ph.D.
Coordinator of IT Accessibility
Disability Resources and Education Services
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

E-mail: jongund at illinois.edu<mailto:jongund at illinois.edu>

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