Description
From the German working group looking at the guidelines, we learned that our documents could make it more clear.
Manfred wrote:
The accessibility summary was intended (in EPUB Accessibility 1.0) to describe in human-readable prose the accessibility features present in the publication as well as any shortcomings. From EPUB Accessibility version 1.1 the accessibility summary became a human-readable summary of the accessibility that complements, but does not duplicate, the other discoverability metadata.
From EPUB Techniques: https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/a11y-meta-display-guide/2.0/techniques/epub-metadata/
Still old definition:
accessibility_summary
If true it indicates that the accessibilitySummary is present in the package document, otherwise if false it means that the metadata is not present.
This means there is a human-written text containing a short explanatory summary of the accessibility of the product or the URL of a web page comprising such a summary. Summarizes the already existent information and may add information that the publisher could not express with the other codes.
From ONIX Techniques: https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/a11y-meta-display-guide/2.0/techniques/onix-metadata/
Still old definition:
accessibility_summary
Returns the description of code 00 of codelist 196 (Accessibility summary) if present in the ONIX record, otherwise if false it means that the metadata is not present.
This means there is a human-written text containing a short explanatory summary of the accessibility of the product or the URL of a web page comprising such a summary. Summarizes the already existent information and may add information that the publisher could not express with the other codes.
George comments:
While technically the information is aligned, I can see where it may be confusing. We just need to make it more clear.
I suggest we change the word "from" to "starting with" In the guidelines. In the techniques, we can say:
This means there is a human-readable summary of the accessibility that complements, but does not duplicate, the other discoverability metadata, or there is a URL of a web page comprising such a summary.