Additional Accessibility Resources
Policies
- Americans with Disabilities Act: https://www.ada.gov/; Americans with Disability Act Title II Regulations: https://www.ada.gov/law-and-regs/regulations/title-ii-2010-regulations/; ADA Title II Regulations: Implications for Libraries: https://www.arl.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ADA-Title-II-regulations_-implications-for-libraries.pdf
- US Federal agencies covered by Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C § 794 d): https://www.fcc.gov/general/section-508-rehabilitation-act
- European Accessibility Act: https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/disability/european-accessibility-act-eaa_en
- Directive (EU) 2019/882 of the European Parliament and of the Council: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32019L0882#d1e32-115-1
Guides and other resources
- Digital Accessibility Foundations Free Online Course: https://www.w3.org/WAI/courses/foundations-course/
- Accessibility Resources for All Libraries: https://www.ala.org/accessibility
- Fair Use Supports Accessibility: https://www.arl.org/blog/fair-use-supports-accessibility-but-you-dont-have-to-take-my-word-for-it/
- Accessibility Laws and Legal Updates: https://www.lflegal.com/category/accessibility-laws-and-regulations/legal-updates/
- STM Diversity & Inclusion Task & Finish Group: https://stm-assoc.org/what-we-do/strategic-areas/social-responsibility/diversity-inclusion/
- Inclusive Publishing hub (articles, case studies, resources, links to tools): https://inclusivepublishing.org/
- The case for accessible publishing (7 reasons in 4 minutes): https://youtu.be/RDyyIi0esY4
- Free Online Course on Accessible Publishing Concepts: http://learning.daisy.org/?course=abc-course-on-accessible-book-publishing
- Colour is not enough: https://www.accessibility-developer-guide.com/knowledge/colours-and-contrast/colour-is-not-enough/
- arXiv: Accessibility at arXiv: https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessibility.html and arXiv: LaTeX markup best practices for successful HTML papers: https://info.arxiv.org/help/submit_latex_best_practices.html
- How Publishers Can Get Alt Text Right (brief column from Publishers Weekly):
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/87947-how-publishers-can-get-alt-text-right.html - W3C Images Tutorial: https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/, with authoritative text and links to more detailed guidance–everything you need to know about image descriptions.
- Complex Images on how best to create extended descriptions is especially useful for scholarly publishers: https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/complex/
- WAI, the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative: https://www.w3.org/WAI/about/ and WAI-ARIA Overview: https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/aria/
- WCAG: https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag; https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/; https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/
- The DAISY Accessible Publishing Knowledge Base: http://kb.daisy.org/publishing/docs/
- EPUB 3 Overview: https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-overview-33/
- EPUB Accessibility 1.1: https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-a11y-11/
- WordToEPUB converter tool: https://daisy.org/activities/software/wordtoepub/
- Benetech Global Certified Accessible: https://bornaccessible.benetech.org/global-certified-accessible/
- Schema.org Metadata: https://schema.org/CreativeWork and Accessibility Properties for Discoverability Vocabulary: https://www.w3.org/community/reports/a11y-discov-vocab/CG-FINAL-vocabulary-20230718/
- Application Note – Providing Accessibility Metadata in ONIX: https://www.editeur.org/files/ONIX%203/APPNOTE%20Accessibility%20metadata%20in%20ONIX.pdf
- DPUB-ARIA: https://www.w3.org/TR/dpub-aria-1.0/
- DIAGRAM Center: General image description guidelines: http://diagramcenter.org/general-guidelines-final-draft.html
- ACM DIS2023: Creating accessible figures and tables: https://dis.acm.org/2023/creating-accessible-figures-and-tables/
- ACM SIGACCESS: Describing figures: https://www.sigaccess.org/welcome-to-sigaccess/resources/describing-figures/
- Knowledge about accessibility: https://www.accessibility-developer-guide.com/knowledge/
- Library Accessibility Alliance: https://libraryaccessibility.org/resources
- Model accessibility language: https://btaa.org/library/programs-and-services/reports/library-e-resource-accessibility—standardized-license-language
Tools and Toolkits
- C4DISC Toolkit for Disability Equity: https://c4disc.pubpub.org/toolkit-for-disability-equity
- Image Description Guidelines from Benetech and NCAM: http://diagramcenter.org/table-of-contents-2.html
- WebAIM: Color Contrast checker: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/
- MathJax Speech Converter: https://mathjax.github.io/MathJax-demos-web/speech-generator/convert-with-speech.html
- WebAIM: Contrast and color accessibility: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/
- whocanuse: Who can use this color combination?: https://www.whocanuse.com/
- Colbindor: Coblis – Color blindness simulator: https://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simulator/
This list was initially developed for Digital Book World 2023, with contributions from Richard Orme, DAISY Consortium; Michael Johnson, Benetech; and Madeleine Rothberg, WGBH/NCAM. It was further refined from presentations given during the following CHORUS Forums.
-CHORUS Accessibility Forum 2023, with contributions from Howard Ratner, CHORUS; Tara Packer, CHORUS; Jamie Axelrod, Northern Arizona Univ.; Kathryn Miller, NIST; Jenny Peng, Oxford Univ. Press; and Stacy Scott, Taylor & Francis.
-CHORUS Accessibility Forum 2026, with contributions from presentations given by: Kivmars Bowling, Publications Director, SIAM; Brittni Ballard, Learning Technologies Librarian, Towson University; Elyssa Gould, Interim Assistant Dean & Head, Acquisitions and Continuing Resources, University of TN Knoxville; Dana Compton, Managing Director and Publisher, Publications & Standards, ASCE
CHORUS Staff will continue to update when new information is available.
Last updated: 25 March 2026
