Comments on: Publishers: Why is all your content not accessible? https://www.digital-science.com/blog/2014/12/publishers-why-is-all-your-content-not-accessible/ Advancing the Research Ecosystem Thu, 15 Jul 2021 15:26:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Kaveh Bazargan https://www.digital-science.com/blog/2014/12/publishers-why-is-all-your-content-not-accessible/#comment-689 Sun, 21 Dec 2014 11:34:01 +0000 https://www.digital-science.com/blog/?p=2535#comment-689 Hi Alicia

Thank you very much for your comment and the links. Let’s all move towards a position where all content is “Born Accessible”, a term I borrow from Benetech:

http://benetech.org/our-programs/literacy/born-accessible/

]]> By: Alicia Wise https://www.digital-science.com/blog/2014/12/publishers-why-is-all-your-content-not-accessible/#comment-688 Sat, 20 Dec 2014 14:54:20 +0000 https://www.digital-science.com/blog/?p=2535#comment-688 Hi Kaveh,

Great that you take accessibility seriously, as do publishers! You and your readers might find some of the following resources helpful and of interest:

http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/sciencedirect/using#accessibility

http://www.accessiblebooksconsortium.org/portal/en/index.html

http://www.accessiblebooksconsortium.org/inclusive_publishing/en/

With kind wishes,
Alicia

Alicia Wise
Director of Access & Policy
Elsevier
a.wise@elsevier.com
@wisealic

]]> By: Christopher Bartley https://www.digital-science.com/blog/2014/12/publishers-why-is-all-your-content-not-accessible/#comment-687 Wed, 17 Dec 2014 14:32:37 +0000 https://www.digital-science.com/blog/?p=2535#comment-687 I agree completely, but why should publishers comply if it is going to hurt their bottom line? That is, there needs to be an incentive for them to make their XML available, we works to identify those incentives.

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