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Plan technical digital accessibility training and support the identified staff to develop skills.  Introductory Guidelines and Courses Accessible Books Consortium’s Accessible Publishing Best Practice Guidelines for Publishers Accessible Books Con...

Once relevant staff have been identified and trained, some organisational accessibility objectives can be devised through requirements gathering exercises. Any organisation should aim to meet legal minimum requirements, but it's possible to be exempt from that...

Audit the current accessibility of all aspects of the organisation, including the frontlist and backlist book files, the website functionality and the backend submission platform. You could complete this yourself using self auditing, or employ an external audi...

Improving accessibility requires dedicated time and money, and a full consideration of where this can be diverted to accessibility goals will help with planning. It is likely that you will have some idea of how long book production tasks take, and how much ext...

Capturing the results of identifying objectives, auditing, and analysing resources might happen across a range of internal documentation that could include: an accessibility policy, updated author guidelines, the roadmaps and strategic plans created in Section...

We recommend that frontlist and backlist/remediation are considered separately, and that separate plans are also created for the website including the backend submission process.  Book files Frontlist / Born Accessible Book files Backlist / Remediation The ...

Publish accessibility statements and roadmaps on the organisation's website, and include VPATs and public policies if that is decided on. Accessibility Statements VPATs

Incorporate planned accessibility improvements into workflows and complete the plan.

Audit the accessibility and organisational knowledge at regular intervals within the plan to showcase improvements.

The ITI Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) is a free template that translates accessibility requirements and standards (e.g. in Section 508 and other legal frameworks) into actionable testing criteria for products and services. Users should test t...

Having a documented policy about how you want the organisation to handle accessibility might be a useful tool. If your press has more individuals involved, uses external partners more often or doesn't yet have a strong organisational buy in for accessibility, ...

If not already, including accessibility requirements within author submission guidelines is recommended, and even if this is already something in place, then this guidance can help optimise the advice you give to authors. Authors are often the best person to h...

Accessibility FAQ for Books at JSTOR Publishers

Submission Accessibility Guidelines at JSTOR Publishers

The following are a curated list of available guidance documents and knowledge bases for accessible publishing. They are neither courses to complete, or models/frameworks to structure planning work or checklists to structure auditing and remediation. all of wh...

Relevant Acts Ireland is subject to the European Accessibility Act (EAA) and the EU Web Accessibility Directive and this has been implemented into Irish law through the European Union (Accessibility Requirements of Products and Services) Regulations 2023, usu...

Accessibility Statements in Metadata - should this be at the individual book or whole publisher content level? Metadata formats, for example ONIX, often include a field for a human readable summary that describes the accessibility of the product. The purpose ...

Australia Relevant Acts The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA) is the main legislation that drives digital accessibility compliance, through prohibiting discrimination against people with disabilities. The DDA prohibits discrimination against disabled ...

This is a great place to start. We have summarised accessibility legislation here: 02 Accessibility Legislation and have separated the information out by country or region. We have pulled out the key aspects we think you will be interested in: describing and l...