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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 Acc...

Once you have completed the short-term accessibility tasks and are ready to think more fully about accessibility in the long term, we have extensive guidance to help you. The infographic below shows how we have structured this.

The 10 Step Open Accessibility Planning Tool Our custom planning tool has been developed by Open Book Futures to help small presses achieve accessibility across their organisation. It consists of 10 steps organised into 4 sections A-D. For each step, we...

The following are a curated list of available planning models or frameworks for achieving accessibility at an organisation through self assessment - there are currently 3 of these, with a short description of their structure. There is also a charter which we h...

OARC The Open Accessibility Review Checker Our custom auditing tool has been developed by Open Book Futures to help small presses audit their static eBook files for accessibility. There are 40 points on the checklist, split into 5 sections: Text Features, ...

This page explains how to 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, ...

WebAIM's WCAG 2 Checklist Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Deque Accessibility Developer's Guide W3C Easy Checks UK Government: Basic accessibility check Web Content Accessibility Guidelines - Quick Reference Web Cont...

The following are a curated list of available guidance documents and knowledge bases for accessible publishing. They are details of established best practice that serve as introductions to accessible publishing, authored by key organisations within the more ge...

The following are a curated list of available free courses and training materials on digital accessibility. We have excluded other courses that have a fee, and more technical ones based on web development. Accessibility Fundamentals Overview - W3C          ...

Relevant Acts Equality Act 2010 is the legislation that states both public and private bodies cannot discriminate against those with a disability. It’s more rigorous for the public sector and there are increased reporting requirements. It doesn’t mention digi...

Relevant Acts The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is the legislation that states some products and services need to be accessible to those with disabilities. It includes a wide range of devices and online based digital products and services including e-reade...

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...

Relevant Acts The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the legislation that states both ‘state and local government entities’ (Title II) and private/business entities that are open to the public (Title III) cannot discriminate against those with a disabil...

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 ...

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Versions 2.0 2.1 and 2.2 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) standards are the most commonly used standards that are mandated in many countries’ legal requirements. WCAG is based on web pages and so it is b...

EPUB Accessibility 1.1 addresses two key needs in the EPUB ecosystem: evaluation and certification of accessible EPUB Publications; discovery of the accessible qualities of EPUB Publications. This specification sets formal requirements to meet t...

ISO 14289-1, better known as PDF/UA (Portable Document Format, Universal Accessibility), is aimed at everyone involved in creating a PDF. It is based on the PDF standard ISO 32000-1 (also known as Adobe PDF 1.7) and directly references that. It sets minimum re...

DAISY - Digital Accessible Information System Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY), also known as ANSI/NISO Z39.86-2005 (R2012), is a digital talking book standard which offers a flexible and navigable reading experience for people who are blind or p...

There are two ways that metadata accompanies a publication. In the first are digital publication formats that directly embed accessibility metadata (EPUB and PDF). In the second are external metadata record formats (ONIX and MARC) that accompany a digital publ...

DocBook DocBook is a markup language for publishing computing and other technical complex scientific documents including books. It allows you to convert one source format into multiple target formats. PreTeXt PreTeXt is a markup language that captures the s...