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ISO/IEC TS 22424-1:2020 [ISO/IEC PRF TS 22424-1] Digital publishing — EPUB3 preservation — Part 1: Principles
Technical Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Document description and processing languages
“The ISO/IEC TS 22424 series supports long-term preservation of EPUB publications via a dual strategy. This document considers EPUB features from a long-term preservation point of view. Some EPUB features are forbidden and some others required, depending on how they relate to a long-term preservation. EPUB publications constructed according to these guidelines are suitable for preservation.”
ISO/IEC TS 22424-2:2020 [ISO/IEC PRF TS 22424-2] Digital publishing — EPUB3 preservation — Part 2: Metadata requirements
Technical Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Document description and processing languages
“The ISO/IEC TS 22424 series supports long-term preservation of EPUB publications via a dual strategy. This document makes EPUB compliant with current practices of Open Archival Information Systems (OAIS) archives and technical requirements of repository systems. The former tend to rely on OAIS in their operations; the latter prefer to ingest electronic documents only in containers conforming to standards such as METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard).”
W3C WCAG-EM Report Tool: Accessibility Evaluation Report Generator is Updated
“The Accessibility Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) has published an updated version of WCAG-EM Report Tool: Website Accessibility Evaluation Report Generator. The tool helps you generate website accessibility evaluation reports according to Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM). WCAG-EM is an informative W3C Working Group Note. It describes an approach for evaluating how websites, including web applications and websites for mobile devices, conform to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). We welcome feedback on this version of the WCAG-EM Report Tool and suggestions for improvements for the next version.”
