Guest Post – Beyond Open Access, Part II: Make Images Truly Accessible for All
Today’s guest authors offer practical tips for publishing high-quality image descriptions, a key step toward ensuring genuine accessibility in scholarly communications.
Dr. Carsten Borchert is co-founder and CEO of SciFlow, an innovative platform for scholarly writing and publishing. After completing his studies, he worked for several years in sales at a software company. At the same time, he pursued a PhD in Business Administration. During this time, he experienced the challenges of academic writing firsthand and founded SciFlow in 2016 to alleviate researchers of the complexities of formatting, technical barriers, and unnecessary time loss. He lives in Berlin with his family and has three children.
Today’s guest authors offer practical tips for publishing high-quality image descriptions, a key step toward ensuring genuine accessibility in scholarly communications.
Open access has revolutionized how research reaches readers — yet, true accessibility is an ethical imperative for institutions, publishers, and service providers to create genuinely inclusive scholarly communication.