@@ -9470,14 +9470,40 @@ <h2>Accessibility</h2>
94709470 <p>EPUB 3 builds upon the Open Web Platform expressly so that it can leverage the structure, semantics and,
94719471 by extension, accessibility built into its underlying technologies.</p>
94729472
9473- <p>The requirements and practices for creating accessible web content have already been documented in the
9474- W3C's <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG2/">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)</a> [[wcag2]].
9475- These guidelines also form the basis for defining accessibility in [=EPUB publications=].</p>
9476-
9477- <p>As the current WCAG guidelines (version 2) are heavily focused on web pages, a separate specification, <a
9478- data-cite="epub-a11y-111#">EPUB Accessibility</a> [[epub-a11y-111]], defines how to apply the
9479- standard to EPUB publications. It also adds EPUB-specific requirements and recommendations for metadata,
9480- pagination, and media overlays.</p>
9473+ <p>Some of the key standards for authoring accessible web content include:</p>
9474+
9475+ <dl>
9476+ <dt><a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG2/">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)</a></dt>
9477+ <dd>
9478+ <p>The requirements and practices for creating accessible web content are documented in the
9479+ [[wcag2]].</p>
9480+ </dd>
9481+
9482+ <dt><a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/">Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)</a></dt>
9483+ <dd>
9484+ <p>The [[wai-aria]] specification defines roles, states, and properties for making dynamic content
9485+ that does not use native HTML elements and attributes accessible. It also provides a set of
9486+ landmarks for navigating web pages.</p>
9487+ </dd>
9488+
9489+ <dt><a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/dpub-aria/">Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module (DPUB-ARIA)</a></dt>
9490+ <dd>
9491+ <p>The [[dpub-aria]] specification is an extension of [[wai-aria]] that provides additional roles
9492+ specific to identifying common publishing structures.</p>
9493+ </dd>
9494+
9495+ <dt><a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/html-aria/">ARIA in HTML</a></dt>
9496+ <dd>
9497+ <p>[[html-aria]] specifies how the roles, states, and properties defined ARIA and DPUB-ARIA can be
9498+ used in HTML documents.</p>
9499+ </dd>
9500+ </dl>
9501+
9502+ <p>These standards also form the basis for making [=EPUB publications=] accessible. As the current WCAG
9503+ guidelines (version 2) are heavily focused on web pages, however, the <a data-cite="epub-a11y-111#">EPUB
9504+ Accessibility</a> standard [[epub-a11y-111]] defines how to apply these standards to EPUB
9505+ publications and adds EPUB-specific requirements and recommendations for metadata, pagination, and media
9506+ overlays.</p>
94819507
94829508 <p>This specification recommends that EPUB publications <a href="#confreq-a11y">conform to the accessibility
94839509 requirements</a> defined in [[epub-a11y-111]]. A benefit of following this recommendation is
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