While large international players showcase well-resourced compliance roadmaps toward accessibility compliance, many in the European publishing landscape are facing a more sobering reality: legal ambiguities, economic limits, and structural mismatches between regulatory goals and scholarly publishing practices.
Data sonification is the process of translating data into sound. Here, Lutz Bornmann and Christian Leibel present the sonified results of a recent analysis of the impact of scientific team size on innovation.
The deadline for the European Accessibility Act compliance is rapidly approaching. Here we discuss the challenges scholarly organizations face in achieving EAA compliance — and the strategies they’re implementing to address them.
Libraries and publishers can work together to improve the availability of accessible published content for people with disabilities. Here we present recommendations to support the cross-sector collaboration necessary to improve the accessibility of content in our communities.
Usage data experiences are dominated by tabular reports from complex systems; we need new tools to illuminate the stories within the data.
If you’ve ever tried to move a photo in a Word document, you’ll appreciate this short reenactment.
If we want to broaden the audience base for research outputs, then authors need to explore more visual formats for readers to consume. The graphical abstract is one such format.
Inclusive publishing and design practices should be the status quo and not an afterthought.
Designers have spent decades trying to reduce the sounds that cars make. Now with electric vehicles, they are being forced to add sounds to provide feedback to drivers and pedestrians. What should the future sound like?
We asked Campus Disability Services leaders, “What would you most like Publishers to know?”
Juggling formats of print vs. digital for books, have developers simply given up on whether there’s room to improve navigation and design?
A data visualization showing the relative speeds of various birds.
What else was happening during well known historical events? Where did the fax machine and the Oregon Trail overlap? What about Woolly Mammoths and the Great Pyramids?
The Disney film may be considered a classic, but Princeton University Press has more successfully delivered Felix Salton’s original message.
Ah the joy of a good scale bar. Here we find out how big the earth would be if the Milky Way was the size of the US.