This new resource from the Open Book Futures project aims to support small diamond open access publishers to improve their accessibility. It is organised into 6 chapters.
The first 3 chapters, Principles of Open Accessibility, Legislation and Standards, are knowledge based and are intended to inform. They present the moral, ethical, legal and standards based justifications for producing accessible books and websites, with some suggestions, interpretations and recommendations (that do not constitute legal advice!).
Chapter 4 contains advice for planning to achieve accessibility at a small diamond OA press; firstly showcasing existing planning models, before describing our own. The model ‘10 Steps to Creating Custom Accessibility Roadmaps’ has 10 steps grouped into 4 sections: Preparation, Analysis & Auditing, Implementation and Improvements & Benchmarking. Each of the 10 steps contains extensive guidance and links to external resources.
Chapter 5 contains collated examples of other press’s work that is either published online, or has been anonymised and that we have permission to share. If you have any use cases to share, email info@copim.ac.uk
In chapter 6, you can find a downloadable planning tool and checklist for publishers to use a section or task at a time, to plan and deliver work.
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