Boucherie, S. – VEMI Lab /vemi University of Maine Thu, 13 Jul 2017 16:48:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 What goes unseen in accessible publishing: good practice and remaining gaps /vemi/publication/goes-unseen-accessible-publishing-good-practice-remaining-gaps/ Mon, 01 Aug 2016 16:02:15 +0000 /vemi/?post_type=publication&p=1478 Abstract: Accessibility to content for all users, regardless of physical ability, is increasingly added to the agenda of priorities for academic publishers. Both anti-discrimination laws as well as the technological advances of this century have made processes around scholarly communication easier for blind and visually impaired (BVI) researchers. Information provider Elsevier recently received an international award for its advancements in accessible publishing. Honored that our progress in this area has been recognized, we also acknowledge that gaps remain in embedding accessible functionalities in the entire workflow of scholarly communication. We believe that accessibility is a convergence of quality and usability applicable to all editors and publishers, and, as such, progress in this area will benefit from an industry-wide awareness and approach to finding solutions for these gaps.

Citation: Gies, T., Boucherie, S., Narup, T., Wise, A., and Giudice, N.A. (2016). What goes unseen in accessible publishing: good practice and remaining gaps. European Science Editing, 42, 3:66-69.

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