[Athen] EPUB 3.3 becomes a W3C Recommendation

[kerscher at montana.com]

Hello Higher Ed community,

 

This work has been highlighted at CSUN and at AHG, and I thought you would
want to be informed.

 

https://www.w3.org/2023/05/pressrelease-epub33-rec.html.en

 

https://www.w3.org/ - 25 May 2023 - W3C has just published the newest
version of EPUB, EPUB 3.3, as a W3C Recommendation (an international Web
Standard) as part of the Digital Publishing activity (established with the
merger of IDPF and W3C in 2017).

EPUB defines a distribution and interchange format for digital publications
and documents. The EPUB format provides a means of representing, packaging,
and encoding structured and semantically enhanced web content - including
HTML, CSS, SVG, and other resources - for distribution in a single-file
container.

EPUB 3.3 is backward compatible with the previous version, EPUB 3.2, insofar
as any EPUB 3.2 document is also valid EPUB 3.3. In other words, moving from
EPUB 3.2 to EPUB 3.3 does not require any changes to current publication
workflows.

The W3C process of standardization entails a thorough review of the
specifications by Member experts, including checking the specification's
impact on implementations for internationalization, security, privacy,
accessibility, and conformity to other Web standards. These reviews led to a
number of small but important technical changes such as additional features
to address bidirectional text, and more precise specification of security
related details for scripts. The standard also includes detailed guidelines
for implementers on the possible privacy and security problems.

 

 

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/> http://www.daisy.org

Senior Advisor, Global Literacy, Benetech

 <http://www.benetech.org/> http://www.benetech.org

President, International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) 

 <http://www.idpf.org/> http://www.idpf.org

Chair Steering Council Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), at W3C

 <http://www.w3.org/WAI> http://www.w3.org/WAI

Phone: +1 406/549-4687

Cell:+1 406/544-2466 

Email:  <mailto:kerscher at montana.com> kerscher at montana.com

 

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