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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 criteria catalogue and the accompanying assessment questions were developed by a working group of KEMÖ (Kooperation E-Medien Österreich, the Austrian Academic Library Consortium). They are intended to support research institutions and organisations in the...

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...

Brilliant, accessibility is so much more than legal requirements, and it could be that going beyond the minimum is right for your small press either in terms of your values and ethics, or because the readership within your community generally requires it.  It ...

Right, so you get that most legislation requires adherence to some version of WCAG at level AA in most situations. But what does this mean, and how do standards like PDF/UA, metadata schema and mark up languages help support achieving WCAG AA? If you'd like t...

That's a really good achievement, and great to hear you're ready to get to work. We have curated a list of existing Models, Frameworks and Charters that might help you structure and plan your work. However, we also developed our own, particularly designed for ...

The Open Book Futures Accessibility Tools Courses to complete Guidance documents and knowledge bases Checklists to structure auditing and remediation Models/frameworks to structure planning work 

Sure we have! Checklists are a useful part of auditing, being a manual process of looking at each aspect on the list yourself. There is more information on the auditing process as a whole here: 04 Baseline Auditing. You might also use Checklists when producing...

Accessibility is complicated, and often depends on deciding on interpretations using your best judgement and reasoning. When doing this we know your first question will always be to investigate how other small publishers are interpreting things too, so you can...

UK, EU and US legislation all require an accessibility statement to be published on the organisational website. See relevant legislation sections for details, templates, guidance and examples. UK Accessibility Statements EU Accessibility Statements US Acces...