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Accessibility summary in Japanese #110

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murata2makoto opened this issue May 26, 2022 · 1 comment
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Accessibility summary in Japanese #110

murata2makoto opened this issue May 26, 2022 · 1 comment
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I tried to write a summary in Japanese. It is intended for an EPUB publication I am preparing, but I think that something similar makes a lot of sense for many reflowable EPUB publications in Japan.

On top of our specs, I used another document as a basis. It is a yearly report published recently by a study Group on accessible E-Book services in libraries in the National Diet Library of Japan. This report shows eleven accessibility mechanisms. Although seven of them are applicable to western publications, four of them are specific to Japan. These mechanisms are as follows:

  • Reading aloud each kanji character for differentiating homonyms
  • Switching from vertical writing to horizontal writing, and vice versa
  • Adaptive rendering of ruby
  • Space-separated phrases

For each of them, I wrote a paragraph in the summary.

This summary has more than 570 characters. My initial draft was much lengthier since I tried to make clear that many reading systems do not support each accessibility mechanism.

本書は、WCAG2.1レベルAAにおけるEPUBアクセシビリティ1.1仕様に適合しています。 アクセシビリティ上の問題点は特にありません。

使用されている文字は、JIS X 0208の範囲にあります。外字は含まれていません。

この文書は読み上げが可能です。出版物内の画像は文字で説明されています。ただし、複雑な図についての文字による説明は、その図にあるすべての情報を網羅しているわけではありません。

漢字一文字ずつを音声によって説明する機能(詳細読み)が可能です。

点字ディスプレイへの出力は可能です。

文字を拡大することが可能です。

文字間・行間を調整することが可能です。

読みやすいフォントに置き換えて表示することが可能です。

文字の色を変えること、背景色の色を変えることの両方が可能です。

読み上げをしながら、対応部分のテキストをハイライト表示することが可能です。

この文書は横書きになっていますが、縦書き表示も可能です。縦書きにした場合、一部の文字の表示に問題が出ることがあります。

この文書は分かち書きされていません。ただし、自動的に分かち書きして表示することは可能です。

この文書は、総ルビによる表示が可能です。小学校5年生以上で学習する漢字に対してだけルビを表示することも可能です。ルビをすべて隠すことも可能です。

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Here is a rough translation in English.

This document conforms to the EPUB Accessibility 1.1 specification at WCAG 2.1 Level AA. There are no accessibility issues.

The characters used are in the range of JIS X 0208. Character-like images are not included.

This document can be read aloud. Images in the publication are described in text. However, textual descriptions of complex diagrams do not cover all the information in the diagram.

A function that explains each kanji character by voice (detailed reading) is available.

Output to a Braille display is possible.

Enlargement of characters is possible.

Character spacing and line spacing can be adjusted.

The font can be replaced with an easy-to-read font.

It is possible to change both the color of the text and the background color.

It is possible to highlight the text in the corresponding section while reading out loud.

Although this document is written horizontally, it can also be displayed vertically. If you choose to display the text vertically, you may have problems displaying some of the characters.

Phrases in this document are not space-separated. However, it can be displayed after automatically inserting such space.

This document can be displayed with fully-annotated ruby. It is possible to display ruby only for kanji learned in 5th grade and above. It is also possible to hide all ruby.

@mattgarrish mattgarrish added the a11ysummary Issues for AccessibilitySummary guidance document label May 28, 2022
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