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additional clarification to the text on unicode support
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mattgarrish committed Sep 24, 2021
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regardless of their preferred reading modality.</p>

<p>At the same time, the language and writing conventions of the authored text will influence the
techniques necessary to meet the accessibility requirements. The fact that EPUB <a
techniques necessary to meet the accessibility requirements. EPUB <a
href="https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-33/#confreq-xml-enc">requires support for Unicode text</a>
[[EPUB-3]], for example, is not enough on its own to ensure that the text in any given language
is fully accessible even though it ensures the correct character data can be used.</p>
[[EPUB-3]], for example, which ensures the correct character data can be used (i.e., EPUB
Creators do not have to use images of text). Although this is an important feature, it is often
not enough on its own to ensure that the text is fully accessible in any given language (e.g.,
additional information about directionality, emphasis, pronunciation, etc. may also be
neeed).</p>

<p>As a consequence, there may be language- or culture-specific practices for meeting accessibility
requirements. Whether these practices are defined within this specification and its techniques
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