Accessibility is one of those aspects of publishing that everyone knows is important, though most people don’t fully understand it. Here’s a list of some of the most important terms, file types, organizations, and standards to understand.
We’re asking publishers who are selling books in Canada to send us their data so we can put together an accurate and up-to-date report of the state of digital publishing.
With the recent approval of EPUB 3.1 as a recommended specification by the International Digital Publishing Forum, accessibility will no longer take a back seat. Benetech’s Born Accessible initiative helps to ensure that publications meet the new standards.
There is nothing more divisive than a date in metadata. Canada, land of compromise, has a new guideline for dates and it neatly solves the issue by saying play nice and be accurate.