Many a times during various phases of my career, I have faced many situations where I have hated to work with standards. Today as I see it, Standards are a must. be it eBook Production, Publishing or Secure Document Management.
So many times I have had this question in mind, everyone is talking about creation of eBooks, Workflows, however I have seen no one talking about Section 508 compliance, or any certification of Production for authenticity of content. For eg. in Singapore any document that is digitized or is digitally created, and needs to be produced in court, needs to be certified under the Evidence Act of Singapore.
In the US documents that are produced need to be compliant to the Section 508 for making the content available for the physical impaired people.
My question, is it that difficult to comply to standards. Today ePUB is sweeping everyone of their feet, however it is a standard by itself.
So many people talking about ePUB and the readers on which they can be read on, not one note have I seen about making it available to the physically impaired people. I may be wrong as I cannot read or see the billions of notes that are being made all over the world, but certainly I am not seeing them in the main stream.
For me all standards compliance is very important. Today there are standards that have been made flexible for certain sectors, people should be taking advantage of this and should increase the number of audience/readers, to their works.
Standards are the way to go.... for me atleast.
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