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Originally Posted by AliceWonder
But regardless - EPUB specifically allows for the abbr tag, it is part of HTML5 and epubcheck validates the content.
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And again, the EPUB Reading Systems reality says... don't use it.
<pre>... nope. Avoid it. Goes flying off page in many readers.
HTML5's <mark> tag. Guess what, it's not a good idea to use it. (Night mode overrides the highlight color in many readers.)
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Originally Posted by AliceWonder
WCAG not only dates back to 90s, but WCAG 2 is an ISO/IEC standard.
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Lots of things are ISO standards. Doesn't mean anything. The reality does not match the specs.
OOXML is "an ISO standard" too, and Microsoft constantly appends tons of proprietary garbage to it and doesn't even follow their own specs...
You could design a DOCX reader to the specs, point to the specs, light incense and pray to the specs, and guess what... Microsoft will still be off pumping out their DOCX files, and you'll get blamed when your program doesn't break the specs the same way Microsoft does so you can be cross-compatible (look at LibreOffice).
The parallel is... customers will be returning your "super duper accessible but it's in the specs EPUBs" and blaming
you for creating broken books.
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Originally Posted by AliceWonder
I know a lot of people think those with disabilities are a burden on society and don't like catering to them, but I refuse to be part of a community that makes their anti-disability bias so blatant.
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Nobody said this.
Many on MobileRead design ebooks with Accessibility in mind. If anything, we're telling you how to make the books
more accessible and actually work for 99% of the readers. (And take a look at the MobileRead library, so many of those ebooks beat the pants off the big publishers.)
When your soft hyphens break their auto-translation and English->French Dictionaries
... when they can't reliably search
... when there's missing character squares every fifth character
... when the WOFF2 EPUB refuses to open on their ereader
... when the text has completely disappeared words in it
... when 50% of the <pre> code blocks can't even fit on the screen
... when it's only readable on the latest and greatest thousand dollar Apple device.
Yep... really Accessible!