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KevinH · 06-19-2025, 03:36 PM

Given the EU recent move to require Accessibility for all Digital Publications and websites, Sigil might need an easier way to see and apply Aria Accessibility role attributes and mapped epub:type attributes, and a way to quickly paste in Aria Accessibility recommended code clips for Chapters, footnotes, endnotes, tips, etc.

In order to make that happen we have had to design a few base classes and dialogs and modify Sigil to employ them when editing in CodeView on epub3.

One proof of concept way of achieving this has been added to Sigil master and we are releasing it as a Beta build in the hopes people will download and test these new features and feed back their thought and comments.

Please note, to not make extra or duplicative work for Translators, I have *not* updated the base for translations to include this code and will not until we have hammered it into some final form.

I have posted the unsigned ci beta builds for Mac, Linux, and Windows on my personal repo here:

https://github.com/kevinhendricks/Bu...nMac/releases/

If you are willing to help make Sigil better please give these a test run and report back your thoughts. Much of the design and gui for these Accessibility improvements is still up in the air, so your feedback will be valuable.

The files to get are named as follows (you can grab the checksums as well):

Mac
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Sigil.app-2.6.0-Beta-2-Mac-arm64.tar.xz
Sigil.app-2.6.0-Beta-2-Mac_x86_64.tar.xz

Windows
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Sigil-2.6.0-Beta-2-Windows-x64-Setup.exe

Linux AppImage
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Sigil-2.6.0-Beta-2-x86_64.AppImage

Thanks in advance for you help testing and your thoughts on the gui changes.

06-19-2025, 03:36 PM	#1
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,878 Karma: 6120478 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Call for testers for Sigil 2.6.0 - Beta 2 Given the EU recent move to require Accessibility for all Digital Publications and websites, Sigil might need an easier way to see and apply Aria Accessibility role attributes and mapped epub:type attributes, and a way to quickly paste in Aria Accessibility recommended code clips for Chapters, footnotes, endnotes, tips, etc. In order to make that happen we have had to design a few base classes and dialogs and modify Sigil to employ them when editing in CodeView on epub3. One proof of concept way of achieving this has been added to Sigil master and we are releasing it as a Beta build in the hopes people will download and test these new features and feed back their thought and comments. Please note, to not make extra or duplicative work for Translators, I have not updated the base for translations to include this code and will not until we have hammered it into some final form. I have posted the unsigned ci beta builds for Mac, Linux, and Windows on my personal repo here: https://github.com/kevinhendricks/Bu...nMac/releases/ If you are willing to help make Sigil better please give these a test run and report back your thoughts. Much of the design and gui for these Accessibility improvements is still up in the air, so your feedback will be valuable. The files to get are named as follows (you can grab the checksums as well): Mac ---- Sigil.app-2.6.0-Beta-2-Mac-arm64.tar.xz Sigil.app-2.6.0-Beta-2-Mac_x86_64.tar.xz Windows ---------- Sigil-2.6.0-Beta-2-Windows-x64-Setup.exe Linux AppImage ----------------- Sigil-2.6.0-Beta-2-x86_64.AppImage Thanks in advance for you help testing and your thoughts on the gui changes. Last edited by KevinH; 06-19-2025 at 03:50 PM.