Beth Richard is new to her role as Product Manager for Content Accessibility at Elsevier, while her contributions to this post reflect her experiences as Senior Publishing Editor at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). She has 12 years’ experience in open access journal and book production. At IDS, Beth led the Accessible Communications Group, and she is passionate about making accessible publishing standard practice. 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’.