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02 Training

09. Open Accessibility A Preparation

Plan technical digital accessibility training and support the identified staff to develop skills....

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UK

09. Open Accessibility 02 Accessibility Legislation

Relevant Acts Equality Act 2010 is the legislation that states both public and private bodies ca...

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Accessibility Statements

09. Open Accessibility 05 Example Work from other Publishers

https://www.openbookpublishers.com/libraries/accessibility https://lup.be/accessibility/ https:...

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Metadata Standards that include accessibility tags

09. Open Accessibility 03 Accessibility Standards

There are two ways that metadata accompanies a publication. In the first are digital publication ...

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Digital Document Standards

09. Open Accessibility 03 Accessibility Standards

Accessible EPUBs EPUB Accessibility 1.1 addresses two key needs in the EPUB® ecosystem: eva...

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06 Documentation

09. Open Accessibility C Implementation

Capturing the results of identifying objectives, auditing, and analysing resources might happen a...

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Certification

09. Open Accessibility A Preparation

textBOX ASPIRElist for publishers Benetech’s Global Certificated Accessible (GCA) F...

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Author Guidelines

09. Open Accessibility C Implementation

If not already, including accessibility requirements within author submission guidelines is recom...

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07 Plan Work

09. Open Accessibility C Implementation

We recommend that frontlist and backlist/remediation are considered separately, and that separate...

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05 Available and Required Capacity and Budget

09. Open Accessibility B Analysis and Auditing

Improving accessibility requires dedicated time and money, and a full consideration of where this...

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04 Baseline Auditing

09. Open Accessibility B Analysis and Auditing

Audit the current accessibility of all aspects of the organisation, including the frontlist and b...

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01 Accountability

09. Open Accessibility A Preparation

Appoint a person to co-ordinate accessibility, who could be a dedicated accessibility professiona...

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The Website functionality

09. Open Accessibility C Implementation

1. Front end for readers Your public facing website is also included within accessibility legisl...

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Book files Backlist / Remediation

09. Open Accessibility C Implementation

This type of work concerns making accessibility improvements to books that have already been publ...

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Book files Frontlist / Born Accessible

09. Open Accessibility C Implementation

This type of work concerns making accessibility improvements to books that are about to be publis...

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The White Rose University Consortium

04. Library Success Stories

The White Rose University Consortium is a strategic partnership between the Universities of Leeds...

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Report from a workshop on sustainable open access book publishing in East Africa

02. Open Access Book Publishing: A Comp... Reports on the Open Access landscape

In October 2024, a collaborative online-session for publishers from East Africa was co-organised ...

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TOME Stakeholder Value Assessment: Final Report

02. Open Access Book Publishing: A Comp... Reports on the Open Access landscape

The concluding report about the author experiences with the TOME project, and more general conclu...

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TOME Report: The Cost to Publish TOME Monographs

02. Open Access Book Publishing: A Comp... Reports on the Open Access landscape

A study of the costs incurred by US university presses in publishing scholarly monographs as part...

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Supporting learned society, subject association, and smaller specialist publishers to transition to open access book publishing

02. Open Access Book Publishing: A Comp... Reports on the Open Access landscape

This report, the result of a collaboration between UKRI, ALPSP, the British Academy, OASPA and In...

Updated 3 months ago by Anna Hughes