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<p class="MsoNormal">I saw this a couple of weeks back and contacted Jisc re assessing the bids for accessibility.</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">I’ve just seen that the "e-textbook" is defined as: a coherent package of learning materials in electronic form that is fundamental to a course of study at a further education college or higher education institution.</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">That sounds very much like some of you are beginning to do with Xerte toolkits.
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<p class="MsoPlainText">There might therefore be scope for you to either </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="">1)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">     
</span></span>take Xerte forward as a tool for creating core course content for a subject area – like Eddy has been wanting to do with Landex?</p>
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</span></span>Take a more technical approach and adapt XOT to output in EPUB3 as well as html5 (EPUB3 is the current standard for commercial publishing and has high accessibility potential)..
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<p class="MsoNormal">More information at <a href="http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/News/Institution-as-e-textbook-publisher-call-for-particiation/">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Alistair</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">Alistair McNaught - </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#F47B20">Jisc</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#164883">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#F47B20">Jisc</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#164883">
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#365F91">TechDis</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#365F91">, advising the education sector on technologies for inclusion and
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