Laverick and Richard "Accessibility Essentials: A 2025 NISO Training Series, Session 6, Accessible Print/Text-Based Production"
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This presentation was provided by Beth Richard of the Institute of Development Studies and Stephen Laverick of Maverick Publishing Specialists, during the sixth session of the NISO training series "Accessibility Essentials." Session Six: Accessible print/text-based production, was held May 8, 2025.
Laverick and Richard "Accessibility Essentials: A 2025 NISO Training Series, Session 6, Accessible Print/Text-Based Production"
- 1. Accessible Print/-Text Based Production NISO Accessibility Essentials Beth Richard Senior Publishing Editor Stephen Laverick Senior Associate
- 2. Agenda ● Design ● Author support ● Editorial ● Composition & layout ● Testing & validation ● Marketing ● Further Resources
- 3. Design ● What formats should we be using? ● The role of branding ● The importance of layout ● Dealing with colour contrast ● Choosing fonts ● Use of decorative images ● Carrying out testing
- 4. Author support ● Why accessibility is important and what we’re doing ● Effective author guidelines ● Authoring in templates ● Providing descriptive links for hyperlinks
- 5. Editorial ● What the authors didn’t do ● Editing & writing image descriptions ● Secondary language mark-up ● Application of house style and consistency ● How to handle tables ● Separation of structure from style ● Use of language ● Semantic markup for emphasis ● Avoiding the use of colour and formatting to imply meaning
- 6. Composition & layout ● Equation handling… use of MathML ● Table of Contents & navigation ● Linked footnotes/endnotes ● White space built into styles/CSS ● Bullet points and numbered lists ● Proofing to authors
- 7. Testing & validation ● Testing ● Validation and checklists
- 8. Marketing ● HTML and SEO ● Outreach
- 9. Further resources ● Design ○ JATS For Reuse Accessibility Recommendations ○ EPUBCheck ○ Ace ○ W3C Accessibility Metadata Display Guide for Digital Publications ○ WebAim Contrast Checker ○ Colour Contrast Analyser ○ A Designer’s Guide to Documenting Accessibility and User Interactions
- 10. Further resources continued ● Editorial ○ DIAGRAM Center image descriptions ○ International Standards Organization (ISO) language code lists ○ Bolding and italics - Accessible Publishing Knowledge Base ● Composition & layout ○ W3C What is MathML? ○ Movemen MathTools ● Testing and validation ○ Proofing EPUBs from Third-Party Vendors ○ PAC (PDF Accessibility Checker) 2024 ○ Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool (WAVE)