EPUB Fixed Layout Accessibility Taskforce

Meeting minutes

<wendyreid> date: 2025-08-26

<wendyreid> Discussing Gauthier's comments, wanting to move things into the authoring section of the document.

<wendyreid> Some discussion of extended description and what it means for FXL.

<wendyreid> Fallbacks and expectations of the reader/reading system. Different from the web.

<wendyreid> Tension of webbiness and epub, we want books to be more webby, but we also want the stability of the print book.

<wendyreid> Fallback as alternative, semantically feels wrong, providing an alternative feels like a different feature.

<wendyreid> Do we have known cases where people are using fallbacks as alternatives?

<wendyreid> Images in spine, tension of some people wanting this vs the need in the spec for the XHTML

<wendyreid> New ideas for fixed layout and comic rendering, JSON, etc.

<wendyreid> Need further discussion about fallbacks vs alternatives, do we need to explore the difference.

<wendyreid> Do we need to think about new features for a new EPUB vs EPUB3

<wendyreid> [Charles demos a DAISY tool called FIDO]

Fido's Github Repo: ways2read/fido-ai