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At the AUP Conference in June, I had the honor of being on a panel with a well-informed group of colleagues. The session was entitled, “Creating and Using Accessible Scholarly Ebooks: Tips from Those in the Trenches.” For those of you who attended, thanks for your participation and thoughtful questions and comments.
During the session, we mentioned a number of resources that are listed below.
The resources that Jon McGlone mentioned are:
- Describing Visual Resources Toolkit - https://describingvisualresources.org
- Guidelines for Writing Baseline Alt Text - https://tinyurl.com/y5y6ycd3
- Fulcrum EPUB Spec - https://github.com/mlibrary/fulcrum-epub-spec
The standard sites for accessibility information are:
- BISG Guide to Accessible Publishing (view-only Google Doc) and shopping cart link to a free ePub version of the BISG Guide
- http://kb.daisy.org/publishing/docs/
- https://idpf.github.io/a11y-guidelines/
- https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#contents
- https://daisy.github.io/ace/
In addition, there are some organizations and webpages that directly offer information on accessibility or provide useful information when considering issues around accessibility. We use and watch:
- https://www.accessiblebooksconsortium.org
- http://diagramcenter.org
- http://www.cast.org
- https://www.accessiblebooksconsortium.org/publishing/en/accessible_best_practice_guidelines_for_publishers.html
- http://cami.gatech.edu/taskforce.php, specifically http://cami.gatech.edu/afacts.php (though they haven't published the accessibility facts labeling to date)
- Amanda Coolidge, Sue Doner, and Tara Robertson, B.C. Open Textbook Accessibility Toolkit, British Columbia: BCcampus, 2015
If you have other resources to which you refer, or make any discoveries, please share them with us by sending an email to newsletter@scribenet.com.
And feel free to contact us with any questions that you may have.