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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All requirements coming from accessibility standards and guidelines can be grouped around some basic principles, which can perhaps be much easier to grasp and consider (especially during the earlier phases of the development process).
Read moreThis introductory document from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) can be seen as an “entry point” to make it through the various (a lot of) accessibility-related standards and supporting documents provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Read moreThis document from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at the World Wide Web Consortium groups the most frequently asked questions (FAQ) about Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.
Read moreImagining how people with disabilities use the Web and mobile devices can be hard. Reading all those standards, guidelines, specifications, tutorials and whatnot can be daunting, especially if you cannot make sense of the reason why your web content, mobile or desktop applications must satisfy certain requirements.
Read moreIn this informative tutorial from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) you can find a list of tools, techniques, strategies, custom settings and whatnot that people with disabilities may use while browsing the Inter.
Read moreThis informative document from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) explores the wide diversity of people and abilities, illustrating conditions that people with disabilities may face while using your products and services (websites, mobile or desktop applications, etc.
Read moreThere is an abundance of web accessibility evaluation tools out there. They differ in features, how they work, the way in which they show evaluation results, type of issues identified, and many other aspects.
Read moreWeb accessibility evaluation tools are tools you can use to evaluate wether web content (websites or applications) meets accessibility standards and guidelines, identifying actual issues and potential ones; some of them are also designed to be used as development aids.
Read moreThis informative document provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) introduces the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). It explains their purpose, illustrating the reasons why they are important and how they get developed.
Read moreWhen websites and applications are properly designed and coded, people with disabilities can use them. However, currently many sites and tools are developed with accessibility barriers that make them difficult or impossible for some people to use.
Read moreProvided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as an informative document, WAI-ARIA overview is a tutorial specifically crafted to introduce what the WAI-ARIA is, describe its purpose, and illustrate the role of all supporting documents making the specification (called the WAI-ARIA suite).
Read moreMade available by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) (now merged with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)), EPUB accessibility establishes several guidelines to allow the evaluation and certification of accessible EPUB Publications, as well as enabling the discovery of the accessible qualities of EPUB Publications.
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