33 Accessibility on Pressbooks
Vanessa Garza and DeeAnn Ivie
In this Chapter
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Understand tools and services to support you with accessibility in Pressbooks, including:
- The Accessibility Checklist
- Accessibility Assist Author Tool
- Accessibility Review Requests
- Accessibility Statement
- Other Accessibility Tools
Ensuring Accessibility
As an author, you are responsible for ensuring that your book is as accessible as possible to all learners. After all, OER cannot be truly accessible if they cannot be used by all.
The great news is the the OER Team works closely with the Digital Accessibility Team in Academic Innovation to incorporate accessibility best practices for Pressbooks authors, helping ensure accessibility of all OER on Pressbooks.
Tools for Success
In this section, we will share tools that are available to support the creation of accessible content in Pressbooks, including:
- The Accessibility Checklist: an overview of accessibility content areas in Pressbooks compiled by the Digital Accessibility Team and the OER Team
- Pressbooks Accessibility Assist Author Tool: Pressbooks internal accessibility checker
- Accessibility Review Requests: requesting reviews of your Pressbooks OER using external tools
- Pressbooks Accessibility Statement: the statement that you add to your OER once they have been made accessible
- Other OER Accessibility Tools: other accessibility tools that you may want to leverage to support your OER accessibility work
