Inclusivity for Everyone: New Accessibility for Annotation
The Hypothesis LMS app is now fully WCAG AA 2.0 accessible — the latest step in the critically important work of including everyone's contributions.
A Powerful Partnership Brings Open Annotation to EPUBs
Announcing the world's first open-source, standards-based annotation capability for EPUBs, the fastest growing publication format.
A Partnership to Bring Open Annotation to eBooks
Today we are announcing a partnership to bring open, collaborative, cross-platform annotation to eBooks. Together with NYU Libraries, NYU Press, Evident Point, the Readium Foundation and the EPUBjs project, Hypothesis will be working to bring annotation to EPUB, the standard format for digital books. Digital books represent an enormous class of content which at present cannot be collaboratively annotated with others. Combined with the recent work that the W3C has done to standardize annotation, this represents an essential next step in bringing a high quality open annotation implementation to books everywhere.
Annotations at the W3C
A dedicated group of individuals worked diligently toward a web annotation standard — the idea being that annotation is something that will be fundamental to the future of the web and should be interoperable, and eventually incorporated into browsers. The first chance for a face to face meeting of this new group came during [...]