Accessibility is about equitable access to resources for all people, regardless of physical ability. Scholarly publishing is about quality and impact - quality of content and impact of research.

Accessibility & Publishing addresses the intersections between scholarly publishing and equitable access for users. This briefing explores how the practices that promote accessibility in publishing can also advance - and potentially transform - publishing itself.

This briefing traces the diversity of activities that currently go into making publications accessible to readers with print disabilities - from retroactive conversion of print into braille and recorded sound, to the more radical incorporation of accessibility standards directly into digital publishing platforms. As scholarly communication is transformed by the shift to digital publishing, building accessible practices directly into the flow of publishing has the potential to become the industry norm.

Accessibility & Publishing offers an essential orientation to a complex landscape for anyone interested in the scholarly publishing ecosystem.

About the Author

Stephanie S. Rosen is a librarian scholar who brings insights from disability studies-and its intersections with feminist, queer, and critical race studies-into library administration and digital scholarship. She is Associate Librarian and Accessibility Specialist at the University of Michigan Library and holds a PhD in English from University of Texas at Austin.

Reviews

Rosen tackles the complicated issue of accessibility and access admirably. With a firm grasp of the issues involved, the author takes readers through the maze of copyright, platforms, web content accessibility guidelines, and much more. A very handy overview of a much debated and necessary topic. --Mark Herring, Dean of Library Services, Winthrop University

Book Information
ISBN 9781941269213
Author Stephanie S. Rosen
Format Paperback
Page Count 76
Imprint Against the Grain Press
Publisher Michigan Publishing Services