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Organisational partnerships
Delivering a worldwide membership programme requires significant resources. You can make the proc...
Guidance
The following are a curated list of available guidance documents and knowledge bases for accessib...
Communicating with Readers - Metadata and DAISY Reports
Metadata We have summarised the most widely used metadata standards on our pages here: Standards...
Standards - Metadata
There are two ways that metadata accompanies a publication. In the first are digital publication ...
Legislation - France
Relevant acts France, as an EU Member State, has transposed the European Accessibility Act (EAA)...
Legislation - Denmark
Relevant Acts Denmark implements EU accessibility legislation through national laws and directiv...
Legislation - Canada
Relevant Acts The Accessible Canada Act is the country wide legislation that applies to the fede...
University of Essex
The University of Essex website provides a dedicated Q&A on OA publication section with Essex aut...
Generative AI in Diamond Open Access Publishing (EIFL)
This short report, released in late 2025 by EIFL, outlines some of the emerging opportunities and...
Library Publishing: How to Launch, Enhance, and Sustain Your Program (ALA)
This volume, put out in 2025 by the American Library Association, provides comprehensive and exte...
Why OA (for books), and why collective funding?
Traditional academic monograph sales are declining. The sector needs some kind of change in ord...
Legislation - EU
Relevant Acts The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is the legislation that states some products ...
Standards - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3
WCAG 3 will be an updated version of WCAG, with no estimated release date, and a timeline of 'a f...
Standards - Specialised Mark Up Languages
DocBook DocBook is a markup language for publishing computing and other technical complex scient...
Complete a VPAT
A Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) is a free template where you record the accessi...
Legislation - Ireland
Relevant Acts Ireland is subject to the European Accessibility Act (EAA) and the EU Web Accessib...
Our Planning Tool - 10 SOAPT
The 10 Step Open Accessibility Planning Tool Our custom planning tool has been developed b...
Our Auditing Tool - OARC
OARC The Open Accessibility Review Checker Our custom auditing tool has been developed by Ope...
Publish an accessibility statement
An accessibility statement is a publicly available statement that describes your organisational c...
Determine whether legislation applies to the press
In the EU, microenterprises with less than 10 employees and an annual turnover less than EUR 2 mi...