New and Emerging Specs and Standards (March 2021)
What You'll Want to Know!
ISO/IEC 22123-1:2021 Information technology — Cloud computing — Part 1: Vocabulary
Technical Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 38 Cloud computing and distributed platforms
"This document provides terms and definitions for vocabulary used in the field of cloud computing. Cloud computing is a paradigm for enabling network access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable physical or virtual resources with self-service provisioning and administration on-demand. Examples of resources include servers, operating systems, networks, software, applications, and storage equipment."
ISO/IEC 23761:2021 Digital publishing — EPUB accessibility — Conformance and discoverability requirements for EPUB publications
Technical Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Document description and processing languages
"This document specifies content conformance requirements for verifying the accessibility of EPUB publications. It also specifies accessibility metadata requirements for the discoverability of EPUB publications. The provision of accessibility metadata facilitates informed decisions about the usability of an EPUB publication. Consumers can review the qualities of the content and decide whether an EPUB publication is appropriate for their needs, regardless of whether it meets the bar of being certified broadly accessible. Although it has always been possible to create EPUB publications with a high degree of accessibility, this document also sets formal requirements for content to be certified as accessible. These requirements provide authors a clear set of guidelines to evaluate their content against and allow certification of quality. This document does not target a single version of EPUB. It is designed to be applicable to EPUB publications that conform to any version or profile (e.g. EPUB 2 or ISO/IEC 23736-1), including future versions of the standard."
First Public Working Draft: EPUB Accessibility 1.1
"The EPUB 3 Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of EPUB Accessibility 1.1. This document specifies content conformance requirements for verifying the accessibility of EPUB Publications. It also specifies accessibility metadata requirements for the discoverability of EPUB Publications. The document takes an abstract approach to the accessibility requirements for EPUB Publications, similar to how WCAG 2 separates its accessibility guidelines from the techniques to achieve them. This approach allows the guidelines to remain stable even as the format evolves. To facilitate this approach, a companion EPUB Accessibility Techniques 1.1 has also been published today as a W3C Working Group Note, which outlines conformance techniques. These techniques explain how to meet the requirements of this document for different versions of EPUB. The Working Group welcomes comments via the GitHub repository issues."
