Accessibility QA for eBooks: Are Automatic Tools Enough?

Date & Time

Wednesday, March 20, 2024 - 4:20 PM PDT  

Location

Grand AB  

Description

In 2014 Fondazione LIA was the first organisation worldwide to set up a Quality Assurance programme to check ebook accessibility title-by-title and its catalogue of accessible titles features today more than 35.000 Born Accessible EPUBs. The QA process rely on automatic tools widely adopted by the industry (e.g. EPUBCheck and Ace by DAISY) and tools internally developed by LIA, integrated with manual control following checklists specifically created by for accessible puslishing. With this experience we will present the problems we find most often in the ebooks we check for accessibility and identify best-practices that content producers should adopt to improve the accessibility of their publications.

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Audience

Media & Publishing

Audience Level

Intermediate  

Session Summary (Abstract)

Not all the accessibility requirements can be automatically checked in a programmatic way. We will explore the most common errors that cannot be identified by automatic tools and propose a methodology to ensure a high level of quality of publications.  

Primary Topic

Digital Accessibility  

Secondary Topics

• Blind/Low Vision
• Captions & Transcription
• Education
• Information & Communications Technology (ICT)

 

Session Type

General Track  

Presenter

• Gregorio Pellegrino
  Fondazione LIA

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