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Creation of accessible EPUB documents by non-technical users: a long way to go

Published: 07 September 2015 Publication History

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This paper presents a quantitative evaluation of the conversion results from office documents to the EPUB format. As a general conclusion, the results of the conversions do not meet the standards nor preserve the accessibility information. Furthermore, tools are overdue in adopting the format EPUB3.

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      Interacción '15: Proceedings of the XVI International Conference on Human Computer Interaction
      September 2015
      287 pages
      ISBN:9781450334631
      DOI:10.1145/2829875
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      1. ATAG 2.0
      2. Calibre
      3. Document conversions
      4. EPUB3
      5. Sigil
      6. digital accessibility

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      • (2022)Evaluation of authoring tools under ATAG and WCAG recommendationsUniversal Access in the Information Society10.1007/s10209-022-00904-922:3(919-930)Online publication date: 30-Jul-2022
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      • (2019)Publishing accessible proceedings: the DSAI 2016 case studyUniversal Access in the Information Society10.1007/s10209-019-00660-3Online publication date: 18-Jun-2019

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