Accessible Book Publishing: A Roundup of Trusted Tools and Resources

Finding the Right Resources for Accessible Publishing

Are you frustrated by accessibility resource pages that focus on websites rather than the specific needs of EPUBs, PDFs, and digital books? Join accessibility expert Laura Brady for a practical tour of trustworthy, book-publishing-specific accessibility resources, tools, and guidance.

With accessibility requirements increasingly affecting publishers and their partners, knowing where to find reliable information—and how to put it into practice—is more important than ever.

Laura will highlight resources that can save time and support accessible publishing workflows, while sharing recent developments and lessons drawn from her extensive experience working with publishers.

The session will also explore some of the practical challenges publishers are encountering across the supply chain, including:

• Accessibility statements that are truncated or incomplete
• Metadata that indicates a title’s accessibility is “unknown” or “not accessible”
• Keeping accessibility metadata accurate and consistent across ONIX, MARC, and other systems
• Identifying and remediating backlist titles that were created before current accessibility standards and practices

Whether you’re developing accessible ebooks, managing metadata, working with backlist content, or simply trying to understand where to turn for reliable guidance, this webinar will help you cut through the noise and find resources you can actually use.

Who Should Attend:

Publishers, ebook developers, production and workflow professionals, metadata specialists, librarians, distributors, retailers, and service providers looking for practical, book-specific guidance on accessible content and accessibility metadata.

About Our Speaker

LAURA BRADY is an accessible publishing expert who works with eBound Canada, the Accessible Books Consortium, the International Publishers Association, and Adobe among other organizations. She has more than 25 years of trade publishing experience, working in digital publishing for the past fifteen years, creating and converting ebooks, training publishers on accessible workflows, and consulting for services organizations about how to publish inclusively while worrying about everyone's reading experience. She teaches about ebooks, publishing, and accessibility at Simon Fraser University and Toronto Metropolitan University.

• Website: https://laurabrady.ca/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurab7/

About BISG’s Accessibility Working Group

This webinar is hosted by BISG’s Accessibility Working Group, which brings together professionals from across the book publishing ecosystem to educate the supply chain on accessibility standards and best practices, amplify trusted resources, and provide practical guidance on creating, communicating, and displaying accessible content and metadata. Participation is open to both BISG members and nonmembers.

We welcome your participation. To join, e-mail info@bisg.org to get on the mailing list for meeting invitations, agendas, and other key communications. By participating, you can contribute your organization’s expertise to discussions, resource development, and programming that help advance accessibility across the book industry.