Guest Post — How Libraries and Scholarly Publishers Can Work Together Toward Born-accessible Publishing
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Guest Post - How Libraries and Scholarly Publishers Can Work Together Toward Born-accessible Publishing - The Scholarly Kitchen 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 collabo...

Less than 10% of published books include accessibility features. A new Scholarly Kitchen post offers 7 action steps libraries + publishers can take together to fix that.
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The Case for a New Alt Text Strategy - KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd In recent years, Alt Text—a contextual description that conveys information on the appearance and function of an image or graphic in digital content—has become a hot topic for publishers. A common practice in education publishing where accessibility standards come in to play, there has been a wider awakening regarding the art and benefits of applying effective Alt Text for publishers and authors, particularly in the STM domain.

Lest you missed our latest blog post amidst all the #FBF19 hubbub, read how #alttext should be an essential component of a successful online content strategy. #accessibility #digitalequality #bornaccessible #discoverability

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