Matt Garrish
Editor - Digital Publishing Standards And Processes at DAISY Consortium
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMatt Garrish is a digital publishing standards editor and developer with 15 years’ experience specializing in EPUB, accessibility, and validation tooling. Based in Toronto, he combines deep technical skills in data modeling, transformation and validation with editorial leadership across W3C, ISO and EPUB specifications. At the DAISY Consortium he shepherds multiple standards (EPUB 3, eBraille, WAI-ARIA, audiobooks, manifests) and built the Ace SMART accessibility verifier while contributing to the widely used epubcheck validator. His open-source work includes hands-on CSS and packaging improvements for the IDPF EPUB 3 samples and specification clarifications for WAI-ARIA, reflecting a blend of UX-minded front-end fixes and rigorous backend validation logic. A former author of practical EPUB guides and a contributor to schema.org accessibility metadata, he pairs writer-level clarity with developer pragmatism. Notably, his background in English and project management underpins an ability to translate complex technical standards into usable tools and documentation.
15 years of coding experience
Project Management Certificate, Project Management Certificate at The University of British ColumbiaB.A. Hons, English, B.A. Hons, English at University of Ottawa
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batch10
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schema-design10
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wai-aria10
java10
documentation10
technical-writing10
testing9
xhtml9
accessibility9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
IDPF/epub3-samples
Feb 2012 - Apr 2019
EPUB 3 Sample Documents
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 104 commits, 4 PRs in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the CSS and batch file components of the EPUB 3 sample documents, with a focus on the structure, display and functionality of the documents. Their work includes modifications to CSS stylesheets, adding and updating batch files for document validation and packaging, and improving the file structure. The contributions involved fixing layout issues, enhancing the appearance, and streamlining the build process.
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w3c/epubcheck
Feb 2015 - Sep 2022
The conformance checker for EPUB publications
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:92 reviews, 32 commits, 41 PRs in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the `epubcheck` project by implementing and improving validation rules related to EPUB specifications. Their work focused on refining schemas and validation logic, particularly for EDUPUB structures, navigation documents, and package documents for EPUB 3.2. They also improved the handling of time-based attributes within the project, and updated core media types.
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