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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Published as a working group note by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), EPUB Accessibility Techniques is a document that provides guidance on how to meet the EPUB Accessibility discovery and accessibility requirements for EPUB publications.
Read moreDigital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0 is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendation that extends the WAI-ARIA specification to define a set of roles aimed at helping users of assistive technologies navigate through long-form documents.
Read morePublished by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as a working group specification, this document describes version 3.2 of EPUB, a format that provides a means of representing, packaging and encoding structured and semantically enhanced Web content for distribution in a single-file container.
Read moreofficially known as ANSI/NISO Z39.86-2005 (R2012), revision of ANSI/NISO Z39.86-2002 “Specifications for the Digital Talking Book”, DAISY 3.0 is the third major version of a standard that defines the format and content of the electronic file set that comprises a digital talking book (DTB) and establishes a limited set of requirements for compatible DTB playback devices and applications.
Read moreAlso known as “European Accessibility Act (EAA)”, directive (EU) 2019/882 is a directive passed by the European Parliament and the Council in 2019. It aims to improve the functioning of the internal market for accessible products and services, by removing barriers created by divergent rules in Member States.
Read moreIn this comprehensive tutorial by WebAIM you can get useful directions on how you can use the free and open source NVDA screen reader to test and evaluate the accessibility of your web page, application or document as quickly as possible.
Read moreQuoting the official W3C recommendation, Mathematical Markup Language (MathML for short) “is a markup language for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content.
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