NIMAS (National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard) is a US technical standard used by publishers to produce XML that is used to develop specialized formats for students with print disabilities.
Accessibility has been the buzzword in publishing over the last several years as the industry embraces the need to make its content available to all readers. We at KGL have previously highlighted innovations in accessibility in K-12 learning and also potential hazards of not making scholarly content accessible.
Holy Trinity Publications is the publishing division of Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, New York.
McGraw Hill Education (MHE) provides students and professionals with the global standard of best healthcare practices by delivering current and comprehensive resources from leading authors and institutions.
The University of Texas Press is a book and journal publisher of international scope, issuing works in a wide range of fields. The scholarly publisher remains committed to its beliefs that books matter; books educate; and publishing good books is a public responsibility and a valuable component of higher education.
Your website platform should be available to every person on any device. The following are critical considerations in a “mobile-first” world for maximizing discoverability and accessibility when creating the optimal user experience for journeys across all of your digital content.
Much has been written lately about the rush to quickly make new coronavirus research available to the medical community, government agencies, and the concerned public. Recent news and analysis ranges from scholarly publishers working together to maximize the efficiency of peer review, to a demand for conclusiveness against an “infodemic” of both accurate and inaccurate guidance, to our own observations that preprints and media attention are driving rapid publication like never before.
In October, the United States Supreme Court handed down an order stating that it would not take up a plea from Domino’s pizza chain to reverse a decision in the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals stating that the company must make its website accessible to people with disabilities.
In recent years, Alt Text—a contextual description that conveys information on the appearance and function of an image or graphic in digital content—has become a hot topic for publishers. A common practice in education publishing where accessibility standards come in to play, there has been a wider awakening regarding the art and benefits of applying effective Alt Text for publishers and authors, particularly in the STM domain.