Guest Post - How Libraries and Scholarly Publishers Can Work Together Toward Born-accessible Publishing - The Scholarly Kitchen

"According to the Accessible Books Consortium, less than 10% of published works globally include features that allow them to be used by people with perceptual disabilities. That means that most publications are effectively unavailable to users with disabilities. Less than 10% of publications have accessibility metadata, such as image descriptions (i.e., alt-text), and therefore preventing screen-reader users from accessing critical information. In other words, 90% of publications are not provided in accessible formats, which allow users with disabilities to customize colors, spacing, and font size. Most audio/video content is missing captions and transcripts, rendering that information unavailable to users with vision impairments."