<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi Al,<br><br>This is an excellent question. I have no great answer. There is no EPUB3 movement underway at OSU, either within disability services or within eLearning. It will likely start in eLearning before it starts in our DS office. <br>
<br>InDesign will produce EPUB3, but from all reports I've heard, it's pretty broken. The sigil editor has EPUB 3 production on the radar but it's not implemented, not even in beta, from what I can tell. BlueGriffon EPUB Edition will produce EPUB3. You can try it for free. It's about $265 to purchase (advertised prices are in Euros). It could be the best bet for book production as EPUB3, at this point. (Perhaps an InDesign to broken EPUB to BlueGriffon to fix that borked EPUB?) If only iBooks Author created real rather than bastardized EPUB3....<br>
</div><br></div>And Al what are you recommending for reading EPUB 3? iBooks handles a lot of the spec, but not all. There's Azardi, but it lacks screen reader accessibility. And there's Adobe Digital Editions. ADE has pretty decent initial EPUB3 support, but it doesn't render MathML or the canvas element, not sure about SVG, but I know it doesn't handle video or audio tags. The advantage of ADE is that it has good screen reader support. Nook Study will open basic EPUB3 books and it has the advantage of having built in reading+text-highlighting, but it will crash if complex EPUB3 is opened in it. Then there's the promising Readium project. It has very good EPUB3 support, but its designed as a test bed platform not as a "production" reader and it's not working well with any screen reader at this point, including ChromeVox. It will support most MathML (through MathJax) and supports video and audio (because it's running in Chrome, after all). We need one killer EPUB3 player on Windows and Mac but it's just not there yet. I'm hoping Adobe comes to the rescue. ADE has been getting better. We were working the B&N on Nook Study accessibility for a short time but that effort fell through.<br>
<br></div><div>I'd love to hear what you guys are doing.<br></div><div><br></div>Best,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><br>ken<br>--<div>Ken Petri</div><div>Program Director, OSU Web Accessibility Center</div>
<div>102D Pomerene Hall, 1760 Neil Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210</div><div>Office: 614.292.1760 | Mobile: 614.218.1499 | Fax: 614.292.4190<br><a href="http://wac.osu.edu" target="_blank">http://wac.osu.edu</a> | <a href="mailto:petri.1@osu.edu" target="_blank">petri.1@osu.edu</a></div>
</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Al Puzzuoli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alpuzz@msu.edu" target="_blank">alpuzz@msu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US">
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Just curious as to whether anyone is currently producing E-Text content in EPUB 3, or whether you have begun looking at how to do so in future? We are currently exploring the possibility of transitioning our base format to EPUB 3 but
at this point, we’re not even sure which software out there would provide the best solution. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Any comments would be very welcome,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Al Puzzuoli<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Michigan State University<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Information Technologist <a href="http://www.rcpd.msu.edu" target="_blank">http://www.rcpd.msu.edu</a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities <a href="tel:517-884-1915" value="+15178841915" target="_blank">517-884-1915</a> 120 Bessey Hall East Lansing, MI 48824-1033<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
</div>
</div>
<br>_______________________________________________<br>
athen-list mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu">athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu</a><br>
<a href="http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list" target="_blank">http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div><br></div>