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Discoverability Demos a Highlight at the NNELS 2024 Accessible Publishing Summit

The annual NNELS accessible publishing summit took place at the end of January in Toronto and was as informative and productive as ever. Over […]

Incorporating Accessibility into the Editorial Process

Everyone in the publishing chain has a role to play in making accessible books. Creators, publishers, and even consumers can do the work and […]

Inclusive Publishing 2023 Annual Review

As we head into 2024, Richard Orme, CEO of The DAISY Consortium, reflects on some of last year’s successes for accessible publishing.   As we have continued […]

The APACE Project, the Accessibility Accelerator for European Publishing, Gets Underway

Eighteen months from the time when the European Accessibility Act will unfold its effects on the digital content and book supply chain, the APACE project has begun. The […]

The Accessible Publishing Conference: A First for the UK

November 9th 2023 saw the first accessible publishing conference for the UK, organized by The DAISY Consortium together with RNIB and hosted by Google. […]

Complex Images – Making Accessibility Manageable

Accessibility heavyweight Alistair McNaught has lead a team of digital acccessibility experts to produce a new set of guidance on complex image description. Inclusive […]

Alt Text: Production and Validation in Large Volume

The UK Publishers Accessibility Action Group meets regularly to discuss and update each other on all things accessibility in this busy market. This group […]

Accessible Publishing Conference Schedule Announced

Next month sees the inaugural Accessible Publishing Conference take place in London with an exciting schedule, just announced. Hosted by Google and organized by […]

A Plea for Page Numbers!

In recent interviews conducted by the user research team at EBSCO, readers of academic texts revealed that they are hesitant to embrace ebooks provided […]

WCAG 2 and Internationalization

W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), which forms the foundation of the EPUB Accessibility Specification, include success criteria that provide guidance on the presentation […]