Publishing Maintenance WG

1 WG Data

1.1 New charter

1.2 Task Forces

Name ID short name Mailing lists Calendar entry
Digital Comics Task force 164808 pm-dc Mailto archives
Annotation Task force 165773 pm-ann Mailto archives
Accessibility Task Force 166312 pm-a11y Mailto archives
EPUB Media Overlay Task Force 175840 pm-mo Mailto archives

2 EPUB 3.4 Specs

Document Status Rec? Editors' drafts Local copy Official document
EPUB 3.4 WD y Ed draft Local TR
EPUB Accessibility 1.2 WD y Ed draft Local TR
EPUB Accessibility EU Accessibility Act Mapping Note n/a Ed draft Local TR
EPUB Accessibility Exemption Property Note n/a Ed draft Local TR
EPUB Accessibility Techniques 1.2 Note n/a Ed draft Local TR
EPUB Accessibility 1.2 Explainer DNOTE n/a Ed draft Local TR
EPUB Accessibility - Fixed layout challenges and best practices Note n/a Ed draft Local TR
EPUB Annotations 1.0 WD n Ed draft Local TR
EPUB Annotations Use Cases and Requirements Note n/a Ed draft Local TR
EPUB Annotation Vocabulary 1.0 Note n/a Ed draft Local TR
EPUB 3 Multiple Rendition Publications 1.1 Note n/a Ed draft Local TR
EPUB 3.4 Overview Note n/a Ed draft Local TR
EPUB Reading Systems 3.4 WD y Ed draft Local TR
EPUB 3 Structural Semantics Vocabulary 1.1 Note n/a Ed draft Local TR
EPUB 3 Text-to-speech Enhancements 1.0 Note n/a Ed draft Local TR
EPUB Type to ARIA Role Authoring Guide 1.1 Note n/a Ed draft Local TR
Repository Open Issues Open Pull Requests Discussions
Testing Implementation report index
Echidna Tokens for EPUB

2.1 Horizontal review pointers for CR Transition

Request Authoring, RS, A12y Request Annotations *-needs-resolution (by reviewers) *-tracker (by the group)
A11y link (originally 2026-03-30, re-opened 2026-05-27) resolution (2026-06-24) link link link
I18n link (2026-02-12) resolution (2026-06-04) link link link
Privacy link (2026-04-10) resolution (2026-06-15) link link link
Security link (2026-04-10) resolution (2026-09-18) link link link
TAG link (2026-04-01) resolution (2026-04-16) link link link

Other pointers:

3 Testing

3.1 EPUB 3 Tests

3.2 EPUB 3 Structural Tests

4 ISO

Doc
EPUB 3 PAS and fast track explanatory report 2026 Google Doc

5 Publishing steering committee

6 r2epub project