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kevinhendricks / Access-Aide

A Sigil edit plugin to help ebook developers improve Accessibility of their epubs
GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
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epub:type in the body element #2

Closed KimNJensen closed 5 years ago

KimNJensen commented 5 years ago

The latest recommendation - https://idpf.github.io/epub-guides/epub-aria-authoring/ - says (among other things) that:

"Use of the epub:type attribute on the body element is now also strongly discouraged".

So probably that part should be removed in the plugin and the element left without any alterations whatsoever?

kevinhendricks commented 5 years ago

The new rules in place already control what true accessibility attributes are allowed where. That said, they can not retroactively change where epub:type attributes can be used and still say they match the epub 3.0 version rules.

Having to inject a section tag inside the body tag just to hold a section level epub:type is simply ridiculous. Again, the people controlling the epub v 3.0.2 spec really need to stop changing things for no valid reason as hitting a constantly moving target is for the birds.

I will think about it.

KimNJensen commented 5 years ago

I won't ask for more. It's not a pressing issue. In about five years time … when someone actually begin to use epub 3.2 ;o)