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For Publishers: Images & Accessibility

For Publishers: Images & Accessibility

August 2022

An Action Plan for Ensuring Accessible Images

Some Quick Tips from the Scholarly Kitchen Post

Recommended Next Steps

  • Enlist subject experts — ideally authors — to ensure in-line graphics and image collections include rich descriptive metadata.
  • Pivot to inclusive design practices, where the disabled reader experience is an integral part of product design and content development.
  • Institute best practices and relevant data standards that encourage and incentivize creating and distributing images with rich descriptions.
  • Get a seat at the table in WCAG and other standards groups. This is a key way to both learn about and influence the creation of standards governance, as well as to establish a productive network of colleagues across the supply chain.
  • Engage with your disabled readers, customers, authors, and other stakeholders; it is critical to seek direct feedback from disabled users.

Lettie Conrad

Senior Associate, Product Research and Development

Lettie brings 20 years’ experience in scholarly publishing to her diverse portfolio of product research and development projects.

Caroline Desrosiers

Founder & CEO

Caroline Desrosiers is the Founder & CEO of Scribely, a company on a mission to make images and videos more accessible to blind and visually impaired people and more discoverable to search engi

Hannah Heckner

Director of Product Strategy

As Director of Product Strategy at Silverchair, Hannah Heckner works to inform, prioritize, and execute on the platform’s development plan.

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