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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.accessibilityassociation.org/content.asp?contentid=161">http://www.accessibilityassociation.org/content.asp?contentid=161</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">EPUB3: Marching to Replace PDF as the Standard for Accessible Published Materials<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Date:</span></b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> Wednesday, August 19, 2015<br>
<b>Time: </b>11:00 a.m. Eastern (UTC – 4 hours)<br>
<b>Length:</b> 1.5 hours<br>
<b>Speakers: </b>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<br>
<b>Target Audience: </b>Educators, authors, and corporate facilitators interested in learning more about EPUB and the options for using EPUB to create accessible materials <br>
<b>Skill Level:</b> Beginner and Intermediate <br>
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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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jon Gunderson, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Coordinator of IT Accessibility<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Disability Resources and Education Services<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">E-mail: <a href="mailto:jongund@illinois.edu">jongund@illinois.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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