Publisher Resources

Resources for Accessible Publishing

Learn how and why to adopt accessible publishing practices in your organization. Several initiatives have created resources to help publishers work toward more accessible publishing practices, and excellent resources are freely available online.

Incorporating Image Accessibility into Editorial Processes

Promote effective and accessible use of visual resources. Editorial processes and policies can be used to promote the effective and accessible use of visual resources at every stage — from manuscript submission, to editing, to peer review.

Background

Learn why we need accessible digital publications for people with print disabilities and how this project developed.

Glossary

Understand the technical components of visual resources in digital publications and how users with print disabilities access them. Where print works have only the text and the visual resource, digital publications have additional, hidden text associated with images and accessed via specialized technology.