Publish an accessibility statement

An accessibility statement is a publicly available statement that describes your organisational commitment to accessibility, the current accessibility of your ebooks and your future plans for improving this. In many countries it is a legal requirement that this is in place, and some have templates and minimum legal wording. You can find out more about this in our Learn section. 

In general, this is what you need to include in an accessibility statement:

• A statement of organisational commitment to accessibility
• What the statement applies to, we recommend just describing your ebook files (as a whole) for now, and including the whole website later
• The date the statement was written
• Contact details for where accessibility enquiries can be sent to at the press (this is an important mechanism and you may want to also devise a system for managing these enquiries)

And either:

Using your completed VPAT, describe:

• Overall whether you are compliant with legal minimum standards: fully, partially or most of the time not compliant
• A list of the known aspects that are not compliant (e.g. some books do not have ALT text)
• Broadly how and when you will address these non compliant aspects

Or:

• A statement that accessibility is a disproportionate burden (if you write this, you must have an analysis evidencing this that can be produced on request)

We recommend publishing this statement on your website, and reviewing it every year. 

For more detailed information and examples see our page Accessibility Statements.