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Guest Post – Beyond Open Access, Part II: Make Images Truly Accessible for All

Today’s guest authors offer practical tips for publishing high-quality image descriptions, a key step toward ensuring genuine accessibility in scholarly communications.

  • By Amanda Rogers, Lou Peck, Simon Holt, Carsten Borchert, Beth Richard
  • Aug 27, 2025
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — European Accessibility Act: Navigating the Challenges of EAA Compliance

The deadline for the European Accessibility Act compliance is rapidly approaching. Here we discuss the challenges scholarly organizations face in achieving EAA compliance — and the strategies they’re implementing to address them. 

  • By Kasia Repeta, Allison Belan, Miguel Ramos, Damita Snow, Stacy Tucker
  • Jun 5, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

New STM 2029 Trends Report Provides a Bridge to the Future

Todd Carpenter describes the new 2029 STM Trends report, which provides a vision and a bridge to the future for the community.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Apr 3, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Ask the Community: What Do Campus Disability Services Staff Most Want Publishers to Know?

We asked Campus Disability Services leaders, “What would you most like Publishers to know?”

  • By Nicola Poser
  • May 1, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Making Research Accessible: The arXiv Accessibility Forum Moved the Action Upstream

Shamsi Brinn (UX Manager at arXiv) and Bill Kasdorf (Principal of Kasdorf & Associates, LLC) discuss the recent Accessibility Forum hosted by arXiv. Over 2,000 people registered for the Forum; over 350 attended the live event; and hundreds more are accessing the recently published videos.

  • By Shamsi Brinn, Bill Kasdorf
  • Jun 28, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Advancing Accessibility in Scholarly Publishing: Building Support

Part two of a three-part series aims to discuss the topic of advancing accessibility within scholarly communication with the focus of digital accessibility.

  • By Sylvia Izzo Hunter, Jocelyn Dawson, Amanda Rogers, Nicola Poser
  • Mar 2, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — Advancing Accessibility in Scholarly Publishing: Fostering Empathy

Part one of a three-part series aims to discuss the topic of advancing accessibility within scholarly communication with the focus of digital accessibility.

  • By Sylvia Izzo Hunter, Kasia Repeta, Amanda Rogers, Damita Snow
  • Mar 1, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Guest Post — Towards Accessible Conferences: A Conversation

Following our conversation about Neurodiversity in December, Publishing Enabled return with a discussion about how to make academic conferences more accessible to people with disabilities.

  • By Ruth Wells, Simon Holt, Katy Alexander, Mark Carden, Violaine Iglesias, Erin Osborne-Martin
  • Feb 22, 2021
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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