Further reading and resources
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Creating Accessible Content
- “Accessibility, the Marrakesh Treaty, eXtyles, and You” (Inera blog)
- Betsy Beaumon, “Guest Post – Why Inclusion Matters to Technology and Technology Matters to Inclusion” (The Scholarly Kitchen)
- Learned Publishing, special issue on accessibility [free for ALPSP and SSP members]
- Madeleine Rothberg, “Accessibility in Publishing” (PDF of XUG 2019 presentation slides)
- W3C, Standards: Accessibility
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Creating an Accessible Workplace
- Lettie Conrad, “Roadblocks to Accessibility” (The Scholarly Kitchen)
- Simon Holt, Katy Alexander, and Becky Degler, “The Problem Solvers You Don’t Know About Yet: Valuing Disability in the Publishing Industry” (The Scholarly Kitchen)
- Alice Meadows, Katy Alexander, Becky Degler, and Simon Holt, “On Being Accepted: The Views of Four People with Disabilities Working in Scholarly Communications” (The Scholarly Kitchen)
- Bruce Rosenblum, “Disclosing Disability in the Workplace” (The Scholarly Kitchen)
- Catherine Harding-Wiltshire, Simon Holt, Sylvia Izzo Hunter, Parinay Malik, Bruce Rosenblum, Lori Samuels, “Solving Problems with and for the Problem Solvers: Valuing Disability in Scholarly Publishing” (SSP OnDemand video webinar)
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Semantic Structure and Accessibility
- “Creating Semantic Structure Using Paragraph Styles, Part 1: Old Habits vs New Goals” (Inera blog)
- “MathML, JATS, and MathType” (Inera blog)
- “Why XML? Accessibility and Machine Readability” (Inera.com)
- Tag libraries for the JATS family of DTDs:
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Images and Accessibility
- American Anthropological Association, “Guidelines for Creating Image Descriptions”
- Diagram Center, “Image Description Guidelines”
- Harvard University Digital Accessibility Services, “Write good Alt Text to describe images”
- JATS Tag Library:
- The long-desc element
- The alt-text element
- W3C Web Accessibility Initiative, “An alt Decision Tree”