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<section id="abstract">
<p>The <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32019L0882">European
Accessibility Act (EAA)</a> is an EU directive that establishes binding accessibility requirements that
must be met by many different types of products and services to strengthen the rights of people with
must be met by many different types of products and services. It strengthens the rights of people with
disabilities to access goods and services, including ebooks, dedicated reading software, ereading
devices, digital rights management softwares, and ecommerce.</p>

<p>The EAA has been approved on 27 June 2019 and will come into force from 28 June 2025.</p>
<p>The EAA was approved on 27 June 2019 and comes into force on 28 June 2025.</p>

<p>This note aims to demonstrate that EPUB® standard meets all the technical requirements related
to ebooks, as defined by the European Accessibility Act.</p>

<p>The methodology used is mapping the requirements of the EU Accessibility Act related to ebooks to the <a
href="https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-a11y-11/">EPUB Accessibility</a> specification.</p>
href="https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-a11y-11/">EPUB Accessibility 1.1</a> specification.</p>
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<section id="introduction">
<h2>How EPUB conforming to EPUB accessibility guidelines cover European Accessibility Act requirements</h2>

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<li>evaluation and conformance reporting of accessible EPUB publications.</li>
</ul>

<p>The EPUB Accessibility defines requirements for accessibility metadata. In this way consumers can examine the accessibility characteristics of the content and make well-informed decisions on whether an EPUB publication is appropriate for each need before buying, borrowing, or downloading it.
<p>The EPUB Accessibility 1.1 defines requirements for accessibility metadata. In this way consumers can examine the accessibility characteristics of the content and make well-informed decisions on whether an EPUB publication is appropriate for each need before buying, borrowing, or downloading it.
This metadata, attached to the digital file and distributed along the supply chain, ensures that persons with disabilities can be informed about the publication accessibility features.
In order to make sure that information gets to the end user, it is critical that all players in the value chain do their part in managing metadata and displaying it to the end user (aggregators, ecommerce, reading solutions).</p>

<p>EPUB Accessibility also defines the official accessibility criteria that EPUBs must adhere to claim conformance to the standard.
<p>EPUB Accessibility 1.1 also defines the official accessibility criteria that EPUBs must adhere to claim conformance to the standard.
These criteria offer EPUB creators a precise set of instructions to assess their content in terms of quality assurance.</p>

<p>The EPUB Accessibility does not target a single version of EPUB (most commercially available publications
<p>The EPUB Accessibility 1.1 does not target a single version of EPUB (most commercially available publications
are in EPUB 3 or EPUB 2 format). It is designed to be applicable to all EPUB publications conforming to
any version or profile, including future versions of the standard.</p>

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facilities</p>
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<p>This requirement is satisfied by EPUB Accessibility, <a
<p>This requirement is satisfied by EPUB Accessibility 1.1, <a
data-cite="epub-a11y-11#sec-discovery">section Discoverability</a>.</p>

<section id="annex-I-section-III-b-i">
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properly</p>
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<p>The EPUB Accessibility document uses the definition of assistive technology as defined in
<p>The EPUB Accessibility specification uses the definition of assistive technology as defined in
<a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG2/">WCAG2</a>.</p>

<p>This requirement is satisfied by:</p>
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accessibility features</p>
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<p>This requirement is satisfied by EPUB Accessibility, <a
<p>This requirement is satisfied by EPUB Accessibility 1.1, <a
data-cite="epub-a11y-11#sec-discovery">section Discoverability</a>.</p>
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features</p>
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<p>This requirement is satisfied by EPUB Accessibility, <a
<p>This requirement is satisfied by EPUB Accessibility 1.1, <a
data-cite="epub-a11y-11#sec-distribution">section Distribution</a> (non
normative).</p>
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