ePublisher 2025.1: Reverb 2.0 Brings Accessibility, SEO, and Smarter Navigation

Modern accessibility standards, search engine optimization, and intelligent content navigation.

Introducing ePublisher 2025.1: Reverb 2.0 Reimagined

ePublisher 2025.1 centers on Reverb 2.0, bringing modern accessibility standards, search engine optimization, and intelligent content navigation to your documentation. This release addresses the needs documentation teams have been asking for—accessibility compliance, search engine visibility, and better content navigation.

Reverb 2.0 now implements the WAI-ARIA specification throughout, ensuring your documentation is accessible to screen reader users and keyboard-only navigators. SEO features improve how your documentation appears in search results and on social media. The new Landmark ID system provides stable, content-based identifiers that persist across documentation regenerations.

Alongside Reverb 2.0, we've made practical improvements to AutoMap automation and the Markdown++ adapter that address real workflow pain points. Get started with ePublisher 2025.1 today.

What's New in ePublisher 2025.1
Features

Comprehensive Accessibility Support

Reverb 2.0 implements the WAI-ARIA specification throughout, ensuring your documentation is accessible to screen reader users and keyboard-only navigators. Semantic landmarks use HTML5 elements like main, nav, header, and footer. Interactive elements include proper ARIA roles and states. Localized ARIA labels support 25 languages. Full keyboard navigation with Alt+N/P for topics, Alt+Home for home, and F6 to cycle regions. Skip navigation links let users bypass repetitive content.

SEO and Discoverability

Make your documentation discoverable with automatic sitemap.xml generation for search engine crawling, configurable robots.txt for crawler control, Open Graph meta tags for rich previews on Facebook and LinkedIn, and Twitter Card support for optimized link previews on X. These structured metadata additions help your documentation make a strong first impression when shared across social channels.

Landmark IDs and Share Widget

Landmark IDs provide stable, content-based identifiers for navigation to specific locations within your documentation. Using deterministic Blake2b hashing, these URLs persist across documentation regenerations—links shared in support tickets or external references won't break when you republish. The Share Widget lets end users copy and share direct links to specific content locations.

Knowledge Base: AI-Ready Documentation

Reverb 2.0 now generates a Knowledge Base alongside your help output—a structured Markdown archive designed to be consumed by AI agents. Feed your published content into large language models, custom GPTs, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows. This clean, well-structured export serves as the foundation for AI-powered documentation assistants.

AutoMap and Markdown++ Improvements

AutoMap gains the --skip-reports option for faster CI/CD builds and Designer project (.wep) support for greater automation flexibility. Markdown++ now emits automatic output markers including PageStyle, GraphicStyle, and IndexMarker. We've also fixed image DPI handling, multiline table link references, and UTF-8 character support including FrameMaker pilcrow characters.