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Accessibility Resources by Bill Kasdorf

Download 20 October 2023 Accessibility Resources PDF

Additional Accessibility Resources

Policies

Americans with Disabilities Act: https://www.ada.gov/; Americans with Disability Act Title II Regulations: https://www.ada.gov/law-and-regs/regulations/title-ii-2010-regulations/; ADA Title II Regulations: Implications for Libraries: https://www.arl.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ADA-Title-II-regulations_-implications-for-libraries.pdf. Notice: ADA Title II Compliance Deadline Extended by a Year: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/04/20/2026-07663/extension-of-compliance-dates-for-nondiscrimination-on-the-basis-of-disability-accessibility-of-web

US Federal agencies covered by Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C § 794 d): https://www.fcc.gov/general/section-508-rehabilitation-act

European Accessibility Act: https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/disability/european-accessibility-act-eaa_en

Directive (EU) 2019/882 of the European Parliament and of the Council: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32019L0882#d1e32-115-1

Guides and other resources

Digital Accessibility Foundations Free Online Course: https://www.w3.org/WAI/courses/foundations-course/

Accessibility Resources for All Libraries: https://www.ala.org/accessibility

Fair Use Supports Accessibility: https://www.arl.org/blog/fair-use-supports-accessibility-but-you-dont-have-to-take-my-word-for-it/

Accessibility Laws and Legal Updates: https://www.lflegal.com/category/accessibility-laws-and-regulations/legal-updates/

STM Diversity & Inclusion Task & Finish Group: https://stm-assoc.org/what-we-do/strategic-areas/social-responsibility/diversity-inclusion/

Inclusive Publishing hub (articles, case studies, resources, links to tools): https://inclusivepublishing.org/

The case for accessible publishing (7 reasons in 4 minutes): https://youtu.be/RDyyIi0esY4

Free Online Course on Accessible Publishing Concepts: http://learning.daisy.org/?course=abc-course-on-accessible-book-publishing

Colour is not enough: https://www.accessibility-developer-guide.com/knowledge/colours-and-contrast/colour-is-not-enough/

arXiv: Accessibility at arXiv: https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessibility.html and arXiv: LaTeX markup best practices for successful HTML papers: https://info.arxiv.org/help/submit_latex_best_practices.html

How Publishers Can Get Alt Text Right (brief column from Publishers Weekly):
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/87947-how-publishers-can-get-alt-text-right.html

W3C Images Tutorial: https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/, with authoritative text and links to more detailed guidance–everything you need to know about image descriptions.

Complex Images on how best to create extended descriptions is especially useful for scholarly publishers: https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/complex/

WAI, the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative: https://www.w3.org/WAI/about/ and WAI-ARIA Overview: https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/aria/

WCAG: https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag; https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/; https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/

The DAISY Accessible Publishing Knowledge Base: http://kb.daisy.org/publishing/docs/

EPUB 3 Overview: https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-overview-33/

EPUB Accessibility 1.1: https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-a11y-11/

WordToEPUB converter tool: https://daisy.org/activities/software/wordtoepub/

Benetech Global Certified Accessible: https://bornaccessible.benetech.org/global-certified-accessible/

Schema.org Metadata: https://schema.org/CreativeWork and Accessibility Properties for Discoverability Vocabulary: https://www.w3.org/community/reports/a11y-discov-vocab/CG-FINAL-vocabulary-20230718/

Application Note – Providing Accessibility Metadata in ONIX:  https://www.editeur.org/files/ONIX%203/APPNOTE%20Accessibility%20metadata%20in%20ONIX.pdf

DPUB-ARIA: https://www.w3.org/TR/dpub-aria-1.0/

DIAGRAM Center: General image description guidelines: http://diagramcenter.org/general-guidelines-final-draft.html

ACM DIS2023: Creating accessible figures and tables: https://dis.acm.org/2023/creating-accessible-figures-and-tables/

ACM SIGACCESS: Describing figures: https://www.sigaccess.org/welcome-to-sigaccess/resources/describing-figures/

Knowledge about accessibility: https://www.accessibility-developer-guide.com/knowledge/

Library Accessibility Alliance: https://libraryaccessibility.org/resources

Model accessibility language: https://btaa.org/library/programs-and-services/reports/library-e-resource-accessibility—standardized-license-language

Tools and Toolkits

C4DISC Toolkit for Disability Equity: https://c4disc.pubpub.org/toolkit-for-disability-equity

Image Description Guidelines from Benetech and NCAM: http://diagramcenter.org/table-of-contents-2.html

WebAIM: Color Contrast checker: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

MathJax Speech Converter: https://mathjax.github.io/MathJax-demos-web/speech-generator/convert-with-speech.html

WebAIM: Contrast and color accessibility: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

whocanuse: Who can use this color combination?: https://www.whocanuse.com/

Colbindor: Coblis – Color blindness simulator: https://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simulator/

This list was initially developed for Digital Book World 2023, with contributions from Richard Orme, DAISY Consortium; Michael Johnson, Benetech; and Madeleine Rothberg, WGBH/NCAM. It was further refined from presentations given during the following CHORUS Forums. 

-CHORUS Accessibility Forum 2023, with contributions from Howard Ratner, CHORUS; Tara Packer, CHORUS; Jamie Axelrod, Northern Arizona Univ.; Kathryn Miller, NIST; Jenny Peng, Oxford Univ. Press; and Stacy Scott, Taylor & Francis. 

-CHORUS Accessibility Forum 2026, with contributions from presentations given by: Kivmars Bowling, Publications Director, SIAM; Brittni Ballard, Learning Technologies Librarian, Towson University; Elyssa Gould, Interim Assistant Dean & Head, Acquisitions and Continuing Resources, University of TN Knoxville; Dana Compton, Managing Director and Publisher, Publications & Standards, ASCE

CHORUS Staff will continue to update when new information is available.

Last updated: 4 May 2026





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