Also known as “e-publishing” or “online publishing”, digital publishing refers to the publication on the web or other electronic carriers of magazines, e-books, white papers, reports, or any type of content that is typically “long-form”. In short, this term covers the digitization of print material and its sharing in a digital way by means of online technology.
When it comes to accessibility, digital publishing is a terrific opportunity for enabling people with disabilities to access information that was not accessible before. In deed, thanks to the progress of digital technologies a lot has been happening, but a lot more can still be done!
In this section, you can find references to resources that can help you out make digital publications accessible, as well as implement a process to produce them.
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Mathpix is a cloud platform designed to author, edit and distribute scientific documents (e.g. journal articles, research papers), especially when they contain Math formulas; it provides a web service, a desktop application (available for Windows, Mac OS and Linux), and a mobile app (that supports both Android and iOS).
Read moreIn this guide from WebAIM, you can read some very useful guidelines you can leverage to evaluate the accessibility of your content for people with cognitive disabilities or learning difficulties.
Read moreIn this document you can get answers to the most Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about PAVE (PDF Accessibility Validation Engine), an award-winning web service designed to evaluate and improve the accessibility of PDF documents.
Read moreIn this video from the ICT-Accessibility Lab of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), you can get an introduction to PAVE (PDF Accessibility Validation Engine), an award-winning web service aimed at evaluating and improving the accessibility of PDF documents.
Read moreDeveloped by the ICT-Accessibility Lab of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in collaboration with the Swiss Federation of the Blind and Visually Impaired, PAVE (PDF Accessibility Validation Engine) is an award-winning web service designed to evaluate and improve the accessibility of PDF documents.
Read moreIn this comprehensive tutorial by WebAIM you can get useful directions on how you can use [JAWS], perhaps the most used commercial screen reader, to test and evaluate the accessibility of your web page, application or document as quickly as possible.
Read moreIntroduced by their creators as “the smarter PDF solution”, Abbyy FineReader PDF is de-facto the leading solution with regards to digitizing documents by means of an OCR process, both scanned images and image-PDF files.
Read moreDeveloped as part of the “Infty” project, ChattyInfty is can be seen as an extended version of InftyEditor. In fact, it is a commercial desktop application for Microsoft Windows that includes all features provided by InftyEditor making them much more powerful!
Read moreDeveloped as part of the “Infty” project, InftyReader is a commercial desktop application available for Microsoft Windows that allows digitizing scientific documents (including mathematical formulas). More specifically, it can recognize text content and math expressions either from scanned images or PDF documents by performing an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process with a neural network trained with this specific purpose in mind.
Read moreDeveloped as part of the “Infty” research project, Infty Editor is a free desktop application for Microsoft Windows that allows authoring mathematical documents by making mathematical expressions very easy and smooth to input.
Read moreOn this page from the Wiris website, you can find the official documentation for using MathType, a commercial solution that allow to enter math formulas in various document formats very easily.
Read moreFormerly developed by DesignScience (now acquired by Wiris), MathType is a solution that allows anyone to easily create accessible math equations, and embed them in various document formats for distribution.
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