Journals, Monographs, and Trade Books can be Accessible Too

1. Journals, Monographs, and Trade Books can be Accessible Too November 15, 2018

2. Introducing your speakers • Bill Kasdorf Moderator • Luc Audrain Hachette Livre • Jon McGlone University of Michigan • Rob Posadas Atypon

3. A journey towards accessible trade book publishing An interview Luc Audrain,Hachette LivreFirst shown November 15, 2018

5. Key points from Hachette’s journey • Discussion

6. Born Accessible Scholarly Monographs The accessibility journey of a university press (or, how we learned to love EPUB3) Jonathan McGlone University of Michigan PressNovember 15, 2018

7. In the next 15 minutes... • Provide context and background to our accessibility journey • Introduce a “born-accessible” approach to producing scholarly monographs • Discuss impact on work culture and organization

8. University of Michigan Press • Traditional, scholarly monographs since 1930 • 100 books/yr. • Social Science and Humanities • Digital and print Michigan Publishing Services • Campus-based publishing services • Online journals and print and digital books • Mostly open access • Typesetting, design, print on demand Deep Blue • Over 95,000 published and unpublished papers by UM faculty • Recently launched data repository

9. University of Michigan Press • Traditional, scholarly monographs since 1930 • 100 books/yr. • Social Science and Humanities • Digital and print Michigan Publishing Services • Campus-based publishing services • Online journals and print and digital books • Mostly open access • Typesetting, design, print on demand Deep Blue • Over 95,000 published and unpublished papers by UM faculty • Recently launched data repository

10. The Beginning of an Accessible Publishing Journey

11. Accessibility Initiatives prior to 2015 • Conducted audits on U-M Press website for WCAG 2.0 AA conformance • Provide services for users with print disabilities • LoC National Library Service • Direct fulfillment • Bookshare • Led recruitment of an accessibility specialist for the Library

12. But what about our e-books?

14. Doing Born Accessible Publishing

15. What is Born Accessible Publishing? Building accessibility into the earliest parts of a workflow to ensure that products are accessible. Accessibility becomes integrated into doing all things, rather than a step performed after the product has been created. It's just good book making.

16. Doing Born Accessible Publishing • Adopt EPUB3 as primary ebook format • Require image descriptions from authors • Educate editors, production staff, vendors, and authors

17. 1. Adopt EPUB3 • Accessibility built in • Convert backlist titles from PDF to EPUB3 and EPUB 2 to EPUB3

18. Open Web Standards in EPUB3 • HTML5 • WAI-ARIA • SVG • MathML • CSS • SMIL

19. PDF EPUB3 • Not designed for high-print fidelity • Reflowable text and scrollable • Increased searchability • Ability to increase fonts dynamically • When encoded properly, very easy for screen readers to navigate • Easier to make accessible with HTML5 and WCAG 2.0 best practices • Access MathML and images • Designed for printing • Pinch and squeeze or zoom • Kinda searchable, sometimes • Fixed font size • Hard for screen readers to navigate • Hard to make accessible • No access to Math and rich graphics

20. 2. Require Image Descriptions • Required for all disability studies titles • Set policy that image descriptions are required for all titles going forward from Spring 2019

23. 3. Educate editors, authors, everyone! • Image description writing jams for editors • Create resources to help understand how to write good images descriptions for humanities and social sciences • Develop an EPUB 3 spec with additional accessibility features built in for U-M press titles that vendors must meet

24. Impact onMichigan Publishing

25. University of Michigan Press • Traditional, scholarly monographs since 1930 • 100 books/yr. • Social Science and Humanities • Digital and print Michigan Publishing Services • Campus-based publishing services • Online journals and print and digital books • Mostly open access • Typesetting, design, print on demand Deep Blue • Over 95,000 published and unpublished papers by UM faculty • Recently launched data repository

26. AtyponeReader The accessibility journey of a university press (or, how we learned to love EPUB3) • Rob Posadas • AtyponNovember 15, 2018

27. Atypon develops technologyfor publishing theworld’s most important content.Atypon helps online publishersdeliver mission-critical contentto practitioners and researchersin every field.

28. What are we working on? Our core product is Literatum,a SaaS publishing and website development platform featuringAI-driven semantic tagging, behavioral marketing, eCommerce, and analytics. Our R&D efforts involve applications of machine learning and natural language search.

29. Atypon Founded in 1996 2016 • Launched AtyponeReader • 11 offices • ASCO & SAGE sign 2014 • First two Passport modules (CMS and Web CMS) launch in a production system • Elsevier launches 670 sites, including all of HA titles, Cell, and Lancet using Passport 2009 • Taylor & Francis signs with Atypon 2008 • The New England Journal of Medicine signs with Atypon • Atypon acquires eMeta(RightSuite) from Macrovision 2017 • AIP launch • Tripled in size since 2013 • Heightened security initiative • 400 employees projected • CHORUS support 2001 • Blackwell Publishing signs with Atypon 2012 • Start Passport development 2011 • Elsevier signs with Atypon 2007 • American Chemical Society signs with Atypon • Allen Press signs with Atypon 1999 • Atypon introduces Literatum

30. H O S T I N G 40%+ 3B USER SESSIONS of the world’s English-language scholarly journals. 12.6K 25.9M 2.4K 919 76K JOURNALS ARTICLES SOCIETIES PUBLICATION WEBSITES E-BOOKS

31. OUR MISSION • Deliver live, online contentto your readers • Keep readers readingon publishers’ sites • Make reading experiencesimpler, more productive,and more enjoyable The Atypon eReader

32. A WEB-BASED EREADER Live-streaming content vs. time-consuming downloads

33. Automated JATS-to-EPUB conversion = reflowable EPUB3 and accessible publications for articles • Automated PDF to EPUB conversion = Fixed layout EPUB3 publications for books & articles • 93% accessible (WCAG 2.0) Support for all formats and all content Continuingthe moveaway fromPDF

34. Annotations with Open standards (Remarq and Hypothesis based) • Sharing • Bookmarks • Streaming audio and video • Supplementary material • Interaction with data sets • Smart tables • Integration with Library • Native mobile apps + offline DRM Improvingthe research experience

35. Navigation and display designed for better reading • Audio book support • In-document search • Inline reference and footnotes • Print and save offline • Download • Offline library • Related content • Figure viewer Improvingthe research experience

36. UNCOMPLICATED READING ONLINE AND OFFLINE • Visit South Asia's Hotspots: The Impact of Temperature and Precipitation Changes on Living Standards • Click to open a desired format(PDF or EPUB) • Observe book PDF opening in the eReader • Observe publisher provided EPUBopened in the eReader • View chapters of the book. • Open a link to view a chapterin the eReader Try it outfor books

37. Questions? • Bill Kasdorf Moderator • Luc Audrain Hachette Livre • Jon McGlone University of Michigan • Rob Posadas Atypon