ABELab has two main objectives :
ABELab is a 18 month project starting January 2023 and ending June 2024. 5 workshops and 3 events will take place to involve and give feedback to publishers.
All the documents and publications related to the ABELab projects will be shared here in an accessible format.
Report on Backlist Data and gap analysis Released on 2023, October the 30th. Diffusion: Public. This document has two objectives. The first is to provide stakeholders with insight into an overview of the number of ebooks actually on the European market and their repartition by categories, formats and years of production. This is addressed in the first main section “Composition of the EU ebook backlist”. The second objective is to provide a view of the gaps to be filled for the titles in the backlist to reach conformity to the EAA....
This HTML page is an extract of the deliverable “Report on Backlist Data and gap analysis” available to download as PDF (1.6 mo) or EPUB (800 ko). Without precise data about the composition of ebook backlists in Europe, it is not possible to evaluate the best workflows and the cost of remediation of these ebooks. Without precise data about new releases, it is difficult to evaluate the potential evolution of the number of accessible ebooks before and after the European Accessibility Act comes into force, and therefore the success of the EAA in the ebook publishing industry....
This HTML page is an extract of the deliverable “Report on Backlist Data and gap analysis” available to download as PDF (1.6 mo) or EPUB (800 ko). The objective of this section of the report is to share results on the identification of recurrent accessibility issues per categories of ebooks that will need remediation to fit EAA requirements. We’ll first define the target, our methodology and the scoring threshold established for this analysis, as well as the identified biases and limits....
Ebooks file formats Ebooks can come in different formats. For the purposes of our project, we focus on the two mainstream formats widely adopted worldwide: PDF and EPUB. EPUB (Electronic PUBlication) is an open file format for electronic publications. The first version, named OEBPS 1.0 (Open EBook Publication Structure) was approved in 1999 by the Open eBook Forum, which later became the International Digital Publishing Forum. EPUB 2.0 was released in 2010, followed in June 2014 by version 3, in which for the first time in the specifications were included accessibility features....