BCcampus and CAPER-BC (Centre for Accessible Post-secondary Education Resources) have created an introductory Accessibility Toolkit for textbook creators which includes a simple accessibility checklist we highly recommend for all authors.

Publishing Accessible ContentĪs an author, you can take an active approach to ensuring that the resources you make are more accessible and inclusive to all. If you’d like to contribute to any of the translation projects for Pressbooks, please visit Pressbooks’ Transifex page. We update translations for any languages which have at least 25% coverage each time we release a new version of Pressbooks. This service allows anyone to contribute to the completion of a language project translation for Pressbooks by translating as many words or phrases as they wish. Because we are a small team and don’t speak most of the world’s languages, we use Transifex, a localization software platform, to help us produce and maintain crowd-sourced translations for the Pressbooks platform in many languages. Our goal is to offer the Pressbooks interface in as many languages as possible. Making Pressbooks Available in Many Languages When it comes to publishing material with Pressbooks, accessibility and inclusion must be considered at the publishing platform level (largely our responsibility) and the content level (which is largely your responsibility as the book’s creator). At Pressbooks, we recognize the importance of an inclusive approach to designing our software products, and encourage all users to consider accessibility and inclusion during their own textbook production and publication processes.

Universal Design refers the process of designing products to be usable by people with the widest possible range of abilities operating within the widest possible range of situations.

Transifex accessibility screen reader