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The History and Future of Audiobooks

This article was kindly submitted by Wendy Reid, Senior QA at Rakuten Kobo Inc and one of the co-chairs of the Publishing Working Group […]

Global Specifications for Accessible Publications

Accessible books were originally produced by organizations working for people with disabilities who are, of course, the accessibility experts. Publishers are now expected to […]

Accessible Ebook Publishing in Canada: The Business Case

This article was kindly submitted by Laura Brady and Daniella Levy-Pinto who are presenting this Business Case for Accessibility at The Toronto Book Summit […]

Accessibility in Publishing: A Case Study from Kogan Page

Accessibility: The quality or characteristic of something that makes it possible to approach, enter or use it Context Broadly speaking, there are three key […]

EPUB 3.2—Back to the Future of the Web.

In case you missed the news, EPUB 3.2 is now officially a thing. Does that leave you thinking, “Oh joy, yet another format I […]

Accessible Publishing: A Snapshot of Success—Are You in the Picture?

This has been a vibrant couple of years for accessibility in publishing, and we look forward to even greater things as Born Accessible publishing […]

Accessible Publishing and the Marrakesh Treaty: Event Report from the Buenos Aires Book Fair

This year the 2 day Copyright Seminar held at the Buenos Aires Book Fair the 25-26 April (Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires—FILBA) included […]

Rachel Comerford—The Trailblazer Behind Macmillan Learning’s Accessibility Efforts

Rachel Comerford, Senior Director of Content Standards and Accessibility at Macmillan Learning and co-chair of the W3C EPUB Community Group, has been instrumental in the […]

Rethinking Content for Inclusive Higher Education Part Two

In March, textBOX examined the challenges in delivering accessible web content for print-disabled college students in Part 1 of Rethinking Content. This second article […]

Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2019: A Publisher’s Toolkit

GAAD takes place on May 16 this year and we’d like to encourage all our readers to take part so that we can build […]