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John Slatin AccessU is THE annual conference where tech professionals, content creators, policymakers, and advocates come together for deep learning in accessible digital design. This three-day digital accessibility training conference will not just to talk about accessibility but aims to teach coding, usability, and inclusive design skills in an interactive and communal environment. Delegates will learn to integrate accessibility into their digital communications work.
Reading Systems Call on Read Aloud
May 14, 2024
On May 14, 2024, at 15 UTC, the DAISY Reading System testing group which maintains epubtest.org will have a guest speaker to explore Read Aloud.
We hear that the Read Aloud function in EPUB Reading Systems is one of the most used features enjoyed by end users. There is a great deal of variety in the implementations, and we all want the best possible experience. This session will give developers implementing Read Aloud to learn and share experiences.
Hadrien Gardeur will explain what he has been developing as open source:
- Voice Selection:https://github.com/HadrienGardeur/web-speech-recommended-voices
- Best Practices: https://github.com/HadrienGardeur/read-aloud-best-practices
- Tracking the work to be done: https://github.com/users/HadrienGardeur/projects/1
- Tracking external issues: https://github.com/users/HadrienGardeur/projects/2
Please contact Sarah Hilderley at shilderley@inclusivepublishing.org for details of how to join this zoom call. Everyone is welcome!
The 5th ALPSP University Press Redux returns in May 2024, in partnership with Edinburgh University Press. This year the theme of connecting people and ideas will be the primary focus. University Presses, no matter their size or business model, share a mission to educate, enlighten and inspire. Bringing new ideas, approaches and ways of thinking to a broad audience who are able to collaborate and share knowledge awill helps to enrich and empower delegates.
Of particular interest to our readers are the following sessions:
- Collaborating for EDI: Content, Accessibility, Outreach and Recruitment
- Metadata, Discoverability, and Integrity in the Scholarly Record
- Disability Inclusion in the Workplace
- European Accessibility Act
Lots to take home from these exciting sessions!
GAAD takes place on May 16th this year and we’d like to encourage all our readers to take part so that we can build awareness in our industry and play our part to increase the availability of your digital content to people with print disabilities If your organization has an accessibility advocate then this is their chance to build awareness and co-ordinate activities that your teams may be able to take part in whether at home or in the office. Our publishers toolkit will give you lots of ideas and help get you started.
Accessible Ebook Best Practices Published in Finland
/in News /by Sarah HilderleyThe Accessibility Library Celia, in collaboration with the Finnish Publishers Association, has released a guide titled “Saavutettavan e-kirjan hyvät käytännöt”, or “Accessible Ebook Best […]
DAISY Launches Training Course for Accessible Document Creation
/in News /by Sarah HilderleyA new course on the topic “Confidently Create Accessible Documents” is being offered by DAISY via their learning platform. This is an instructor-led online training […]
DAISY Releases Version 5.0 of Obi, the Audio Production Tool
/in News /by Sarah HilderleyThe DAISY Consortium is pleased to announce the latest release of Obi, the popular open source navigable audio book creation tool. Obi produces books […]