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Legislation - Aotearoa New Zealand
New Zealand does not have specific accessibility legislation, but it does have a government manda...
Standards - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3
Standards - Specialised Mark Up Languages
DocBook DocBook is a markup language for publishing computing and other technical complex scient...
Standards - Metadata
There are two ways that metadata accompanies a publication. In the first are digital publication ...
Standards - Other Formats
DAISY - Digital Accessible Information System Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY), als...
Standards - PDFs
ISO 14289-1, better known as PDF/UA (Portable Document Format, Universal Accessibility), is aimed...
Standards - EPUBs
EPUB Accessibility 1.1 addresses two key needs in the EPUB ecosystem: evaluation and certifi...
Courses and Training Materials
The following are a curated list of available free courses and training materials on digital acce...
Guidance
The following are a curated list of available guidance documents and knowledge bases for accessib...
Standards - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Versions 2.0 2.1 and 2.2 Web Content Accessibility ...
Legislation - Australia
Australia Relevant Acts The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA) is the main legislation th...
Legislation - US
Relevant Acts The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the legislation that states both ‘sta...
Legislation - Ireland
Relevant Acts Ireland is subject to the European Accessibility Act (EAA) and the EU Web Accessib...
Legislation - EU
Relevant Acts The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is the legislation that states some products ...
Legislation - UK
Relevant Acts Equality Act 2010 is the legislation that states both public and private bodies ca...
Accessibility Statements
UK, EU, and US legislation all require an accessibility statement to be published on the organisa...
Publish an accessibility statement
An accessibility statement is a publicly available statement that describes your organisational c...
Discussing accessibility with small publishers
The current situation for academic librarians tasked with content acquisition is changing very fa...
Long Term Accessibility - Plan the Future
Once you have completed the short-term accessibility tasks and are ready to think more fully abou...
Open Book Accessibility for Librarians
Librarian Responsibilities Accessibility applies to various aspects of libraries and there are s...