Publish an accessibility statement

An accessibility statement is a publicly available statement that describes your organisational commitment to accessibility, the current accessibility of your ebooksebooks, and your future plans for improving this. InAn manyaccessibility countries itstatement is a legal requirement that this is in place,many andcountries, some havewith templates provided 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
• WhatInitially, we suggest that the statement applies to,only we recommend just describingto your ebook files (as a whole)whole, forwith now,plans andto includinginclude theyour wholefull website at a later time
• The date the statement was written
• Contact details for where accessibility enquiries can be sent to at the presspress. (thisThis is an important mechanism and you may also want to also devise a system for managing these enquiries)enquiries

And either:

Using your completed VPAT, describe:

• Overall whether you are compliant with legal minimum standards: fully, partiallypartially, 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 non-compliant aspects

Or:

• A statement that accessibility is a disproportionate burden (if you write this, you must haveprovide 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 examplesexamples, see our page Accessibility Statements.

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