News & Events

Here you will find all the latest news as well as upcoming and previous events.

EPUB Accessibility: EU Accessibility Act Mapping

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The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is an EU directive that establishes accessibility targets to be met by many different types of products and services in order […]

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Inclusive Publishing Partner RedShelf Wins 2021 Publishing Software of the Year

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Many congratulations to Inclusive Publishing Partner, RedShelf, who have been awarded the 2021 Publishing Software of the Year Award in the EdTech Breakthrough Awards […]

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Accessibility is Good For Business: at the ALPSP Conference

September 15th to 17th, 2021
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The Association Of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)‘s Annual Conference on September 16 includes this session on accessibility featuring Simon Holt (Elsevier), Alan Maloney (SAGE Publishing), Agata Mrva-Montoya (Sydney […]

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Free DAISY Webinar: Accessibility Action Group Annual Seminar

July 21st, 2021
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The Essentials for Accessible Publishing in 2021 This year the annual AAG seminar, which usually takes place at The London Book Fair, will be […]

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Avneesh Singh Re-Elected to W3C Advisory Board

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Many congratulations to Avneesh Singh, Chief Operating Officer at The DAISY Consortium, who has been re-elected to the W3C Advisory Board, as reported in W3C’s announcement. The […]

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W3C Releases First Public Working Draft for Specification for Spoken Presentation in HTML

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Announcement from the W3C: “The Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of Specification for Spoken Presentation in HTML from the Pronunciation Task […]

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How to Grow Your Accessibility Maturity-for HE and FE Professionals

May 26th, 2021
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AbilityNet is delivering this 2 hour course on how to take a strategic and joined-up approach to improve outcomes, reduce culture and change the […]

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Accessibility Metadata-A Digital Textbook Superhero! RedShelf Webinar for GAAD

May 20th, 2021
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Join Inclusive Publishing Partner, RedShelf, on May 20th as they recognize Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) by unmasking the powers of accessibility metadata. Learn […]

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BISG Accessibility Metadata Workshop

June 15th, 2021
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In this 90 minute workshop, BISG’s workflow committee will lead a discussion of best practice that make books accessible for print-disabled audiences. Those attending […]

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London Book Fair 2021

June 21st to July 2nd, 2021
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The London BookFair 2019 plays host to a number of events which will be of interest to our inclusive publishing audience. The decision has […]

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