[Athen] [EXTERNAL] Use accessibility metadata in procuring published materials -- newly released

[Alexis Delevett]

Oh wow, thank you for sharing!
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Athen] Use accessibility metadata in procuring published materials -- newly released


Dear Ahead, DSSHE-L, and Athens,



Sorry for cross posting.



The Publishing Community Group at the W3C has just released the guidelines for displaying accessibility metadata for published materials. Today both VitalSource and RedShelf are providing this accessibility metadata in their online catalogs. It would be wonderful to have everybody use this accessibility metadata before they select a title for a course. Please also forward this to the library folks on your campus, because the libraries should be doing the same thing in their library searches.



IMO this is a really, really big deal, and if we demand this accessibility metadata from all publishers, it can drive the market to Born Accessible published materials.

Read about it at inclusivepublishing.org at:

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Happy to answer any questions  here or in the library space.



Best

George



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