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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello Higher Ed community,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This work has been highlighted at CSUN and at AHG, and I thought you would want to be informed.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.w3.org/2023/05/pressrelease-epub33-rec.html.en">https://www.w3.org/2023/05/pressrelease-epub33-rec.html.en</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.w3.org/">https://www.w3.org/</a> — 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).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>George<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=188 height=215 style='width:1.9583in;height:2.243in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D98EF4.A3D1F270" alt="Drawing of a guide dog in harness sitting looking up at a dangling rope in front of a mountain wall. Credits, Outdoor Life."><span style='mso-ligatures:none'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>George Kerscher Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>-In our Information Age, access to information is a fundamental human right.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>Chief Innovations Officer, DAISY Consortium<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0070C0;mso-ligatures:none'><a href="http://www.daisy.org/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>http://www.daisy.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>Senior Advisor, Global Literacy, Benetech<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'><a href="http://www.benetech.org/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>http://www.benetech.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>President, International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'><a href="http://www.idpf.org/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>http://www.idpf.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>Chair Steering Council Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), at W3C<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'><a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI"><span style='color:#0563C1'>http://www.w3.org/WAI</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>Phone: +1 406/549-4687<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>Cell:+1 406/544-2466 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>Email: <a href="mailto:kerscher@montana.com"><span style='color:#0563C1'>kerscher@montana.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>