Now Available: BISG Publishes Quick Start Guide to Accessible Publishing
Now available for download (free) from the Book Industry Study Group (BISG).
From the BISG Web Site:
The BISG Quick Start Guide to Accessible Publishing offers both a succinct introduction to the basics of accessibility and the market advantages to publishers for adopting best practices in creating accessible digital content. It is available in the EPUB 3 format [as well as PDF] and serves as a model of a properly accessible publication.
The guide addresses why and how to create, distribute, and display accessible digital content and provides an overview of these topics:
- The critical importance of accessibility
- The business case for making content accessible
- Practical advice on how best to make content accessible
- Legal requirements for accessible content
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The BISG Quick Start Guide to Accessible Publishing was written and compiled for the Book Industry Study Group by members of the BISG Content Structure Committee’s Accessible Publishing Working Group.
The BISG Quick Start Guide to Accessible Publishing is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.