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WCAG 3 will be an updated version of WCAG, with no estimated release date, and a timeline of 'a few years', with some aspects requiring additional research that is still yet to be completed. WCAG 3 will retain the success criteria for WCAG 2, but will be struc...

Metadata We have summarised the most widely used metadata standards on our pages here: Standards - Metadata DAISY reports Ace SMART by DAISY is a recommended free open source tool that will generate an accessibility report for EPUBs. The output of these gen...

This accessibility statement applies to all of compass.copim.ac.uk This website is run by the Open Book Futures (OBF) project, an extension of the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project which is based in the UK, although...

Relevant Acts Denmark implements EU accessibility legislation through national laws and directives: Lov om tilgængelighedskrav for produkter og tjenester (Act on Accessibility Requirements for Products and Services) - the national implementation of the E...

This volume, put out in 2025 by the American Library Association, provides comprehensive and extensive guidance on how to launch, grow, and sustain library publishing programmes. It does this through detailed case studies and reflections from libraries who hav...

This short report, released in late 2025 by EIFL, outlines some of the emerging opportunities and issues arising from the growth of generative AI around editorial workflows, metadata, authorship, research integrity, copyright and others. It provides very brief...

Relevant Acts The Accessible Canada Act is the country wide legislation that applies to the federal public sector, federally regulated organisations and Crown corporations. If covered by the act, then the legislation states these organisations must: Cons...

Relevant acts France, as an EU Member State, has transposed the European Accessibility Act (EAA) and the EU Web Accessibility Directive into French law (Loi n° 2023-171 du 9 mars 2023). Interpretation of whether these acts apply to small publishers and ebook...

India Legislative Acts The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act (the RPWD Act or RPD Act) states that all ICT, including websites and electronic documents, should be made accessible and there should be a technical standard developed for ICT accessibility....

China Legislative Acts The Law of the People's Republic of China on the Construction of Barrier-Free Environments came into effect on 1st September 2023, and it states that the public and private sector must provide accessible information. The technical stan...

Copim Open Archiving Criteria for Open Access Publications Eight criteria are identified for the effective archiving of open access publications. Although developed primarily for books, we believe the criteria are appropriate for open access publications gener...

Defining an ebook is not easy - and indeed an important part of the COPIM and OBF projects has been to push the boundaries of any such definition through the Experimental Publications work packages (link to the related book in Copim Compas). For the sake of t...

The first question for a publisher (or author) to address in developing an archiving strategy is: why archive the work at all? One primary motivation is to enable a reader at some time in the future to be able to access the content of the publication.   What...

It seems unlikely that it is either necessary or feasible to archive every aspect of a publication. The first step is to consider how important the various components of the publication are to the understanding of the work by a future reader, and prioritise th...

Archiving something is clearly better than not archiving at all, so a starting point is to archive what you have! But given the opportunity to develop or select between alternatives, the project team developed "Good, better, best" guidance around alternative ...

Metadata is critical for the discovery and effective dissemination of books. Just putting something online doesn't mean anybody will get to know about it - and this is particularly true for future readers searching and accessing works in ways we have not yet i...

As part of the OBF project the Garth Stewart at the Digital Preservation Coalition undertook a report looking specifically at issues around the archiving and preservation of outgoing links and the content associated with those links. Stewart, G. (2026). Think,...

As part of the work undertaken within the OBF project we have identified many alternative archiving solutions and, in light of our recommendations for Open Archiving Criteria, conducted an analysis of some of the main alternatives. For five specific archives (...