Making accessibility more accessible to publishers

Conrad, Lettie Y.; Kasdorf, Bill

doi:10.1002/leap.1154

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“…Microsoft Word and LaTeX both support necessary features for screen reader users such as a deined heading structures, but Microsoft Word seems to succeed more at producing PDFs that preserve accessibility without the need to make reinements with additional software like Adobe Acrobat Pro. Furthermore, Microsoft Word is likely to be more readily available to authors than Adobe Acrobat Pro, even though both require a licence 13 , and Microsoft Word requires less digital literacy than using the tagging features ofered by Adobe Acrobat Pro, which is temperamental and can be used incorrectly if the user is not knowledgeable about best practice for tagging PDFs.…”

Section: Creating Accessible Contentmentioning

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Author Reflections on Creating Accessible Academic Papers

Menzies

Tigwell

Crabb

2022

ACM Trans. Access. Comput.

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Academic papers demonstrate inaccessibility despite accessible writing resources made available by SIGACCESS and others. The move from accessibility guidance to accessibility implementation is challenging for authors. Our work focuses on understanding what challenges authors of academic papers face in creating content elements (e.g., tables, charts, images) to better understand how to improve accessibility. We classified 3866 content elements from 330 papers covering a 10-year sample of academic work from ASSETS to understand the variety used. We also reflected on the design choices that make the content elements inaccessible. We then conducted interviews with 13 academic authors from PhD student through to Professor Emeritus that publish within top-tier accessibility and HCI venues to understand the challenges faced in creating accessible content. We found critical issues in how academics understand and implement accessibility while also balancing the visual design of the paper. We provide recommendations for improving accessibility in the academic paper writing process and focus on steps that can be taken by authors, publishers, researchers, and universities.

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Section: Creating Accessible Contentmentioning

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“…In recent years, there has been advocation for accessibility becoming integral to creating academic content [13]. SIGCHI has already committed to making sure the academic papers from its many conferences are accessible.…”

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Author Reflections on Creating Accessible Academic Papers

Menzies

Tigwell

Crabb

2022

ACM Trans. Access. Comput.

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“…Encouraged by the Mellon foundation, accessibility has been a challenge that many of the new platforms have been wrestling with as have many others across the publishing industry (Conrad & Kasdorf, 2018 A growing concern, however, has been with the amount of additional labour that requiring accessibility for multimodal publications imposes on authors and publishers. Audio and video files need to be captioned or transcribed, images need alt-text to be written, and more complex digital objects, such as 3D models, need explanations to be written that explain why they may not be fully accessible.…”

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The academic eBook ecosystem reinvigorated: A perspective from the USA

Watkinson

2018

Learned Publishing

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The development of infrastructure to support new forms of long-form digital scholarship that go 'beyond the eBook' has been an active area of humanities publishing over the last 5 years. Proactive philanthropic support for this work has energized the US non-profit publishing community, especially university presses and library-based publishers. This article describes the various strands of work that are ongoing and identifies some common themes: an emphasis on shared values; a focus on building an ecosystem of interoperable platforms and tools; and engagement with the challenges facing new-form digital publications (especially preservation, discovery, and accessibility). This article also considers how publishers who are looking for new platforms and processes can navigate the variety of options now on offer.

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Making accessibility more accessible to publishers

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Author Reflections on Creating Accessible Academic Papers

Author Reflections on Creating Accessible Academic Papers

The academic eBook ecosystem reinvigorated: A perspective from the USA

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