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Access has not been fully provided to a research output unless it is Accessible. Accessible means the research output is perceivable, operable, understandable and robust. Scholarly communications professionals should seek to remove all barriers to ac...

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) standards are the most commonly used standards that are mandated in many countries’ legal requirements. They are all based on 4 design principles:  Perceivable - you ...

Accessible EPUBs 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 req...

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...

HTML Living Standard Hyper Text Markup Language is the ubiquitous web page Markup standard, with HTML Living Standard being the current version beyond HTML5 that is now constantly updated, although HTML5 is used interchangeably with this. It was originally de...

There are many proprietary and open source tools available to audit accessibility using automated testing. Below we have collated our top picks for open source tools, however many publishers may have budget to purchase a tool to do this, therefore, we have inc...

Checklist for manual checking You can download this checklist, produced by us, in a spreadsheet format with additional richer information, including an indication of the complexity of each task, from here: The Open Book Futures Accessibility Tools EPubs and ...

We recommend running at least a sample of eBooks through assistive technology in order to double check that everything works OK, and best if this is a range of the most commonly used tools that fulfill a range of functions. The minimum checks you complete shou...

While not common for small presses, and likely this is beyond available capacity, best practice would be to approach end users with disabilities to test a sample of book files, web pages and submission systems. Below is some advice on finding user testing oppo...

Benetech’s Global Certificated Accessible (GCA) Fondazione LIA's Ebook quality assurance  

Considering what your accessibility goals are, and forming a plan or roadmap to achieve them, is an important part of accessibility work. Our strategic planning model features 10 steps split into 4 sections to help you devise a plan that works for your small p...

This type of work concerns making accessibility improvements to books that are about to be published. It will involve making changes to how your authors, typesetters and any external providers are required to work. The frequency with which you introduce improv...

This type of work concerns making accessibility improvements to books that have already been published. It will involve making changes to your existing book files, which might require getting in touch with authors.  Most legislation specifies a date, before w...

1. Front end for readers Your public facing website is also included within accessibility legislation, which usually requires WCAG AA compliance. For websites, the whole of WCAG applies, rather than the specific ebook checklist we have produced, where only th...

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...

AbilityNet Digital Accessibility Maturity Model (DAMM) This functions as a 7 step management tool to help leverage all capacity at an organisation to map existing accessibility, devise roadmaps and check in on progress. This model has 5 “dimensions” that are ...

https://www.openbookpublishers.com/libraries/accessibility https://lup.be/accessibility/ https://www.sup.ac.uk/information-for-authors   Alternative Text for Illustrations Spreadsheet https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/terms-of-use/ https://uo...

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 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...

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...