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 will learn tips and tricks for publishing workflows that reliable deliver accessible formats.
June 15th, 2021
Online
Register for this event at the BISG event page.
This has been a vibrant couple of years for accessibility in publishing, and we look forward to even greater things as Born Accessible publishing becomes part of our mainstream requirement.
Publishers should work on this now, build the necessary elements into their workflows, and reach a more diverse audience. Join the DAISY party!
George Kerscher , Chief Innovations Officer at the DAISY Consortium and Sarah Hilderley from Inclusive Publishing were pleased to publish this article with BISG. In this brief report they look at how far we’ve come as an industry in our challenge of creating born accessible mainstream content and they highlight the various tools that are available to developers and publishers to help with this challenge. The full BISG article is available here.
Following up on the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) May 2018 metadata summit for data providers, this meeting will focus on the requirements and priorities for metadata recipients. Attendees include representative of distributors, retailers, data aggregators, and systems providers who are active in the transmission of book industry metadata which is essential for the discovery of accessibility features within ebooks. This is the second of three metadata summits scheduled in 2018.
July 25, 2018
Nashville, TN, USA
For full details on how you can take part in this summit which is open to members and non members of BISG visit their website
Making Information Pay: Higher Education is an extension of BISG’s signature annual event that will focus on the needs and developments in the Higher Education side of publishing. This year’s dual focus will be on education technology and the impact of accessibility initiatives on higher-education content delivery. For registration and program information see http://bisg.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=891617&group=
Date: Friday, December 8th, 2017
Venue: Macmillan Learning, 1 New York Plaza, New York, NY
When: 1pm
