Beth Richard is Product Manager for Content Accessibility at Elsevier. She has 13 years’ experience in scholarly journal and book production. Beth completed a Master’s degree in Publishing Studies at Oxford Brookes University in 2024/25, for which her dissertation was awarded the Taylor & Francis Prize and the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Award. Her study on the use of alternative (alt) text in academic publications was published in the journal Logos: ‘Key Issues Affecting the Inclusion of Alt Text in Scholarly PDF Publications’.