Accessibility

Since 2020, we’ve been a certified accessible publisher—formerly from Benetech and now through eBound Canada’s Digital Certification program—for producing ePUBs that meet a full range of accessibility features required to support the needs of all readers, including those with print disabilities and learning differences. This includes ensuring our ePubs have structured navigation and headings, embedded page numbering from the print edition, described images, and built-in discovery data that describe each book’s accessibility features.

eBound Canada’s Digital Certification is a Canadian grown ‘whole file health certification”. This certification includes the auditing of accessibility features to the highest standards and the availability of content on retail sites.

Accessible Books Consortium Charter for Accessible Publishing

Book*hug Press has agreed to uphold the commitments required by the Accessible Book Consortium’s Charter for Accessible Publishing. The commitments that the Charter requires are:

1. stating our accessibility policy on our website, including adherence to the Charter;
2. nominating a senior manager who will be responsible for accessibility;
3. raising awareness among, and providing technical training for, relevant staff;
4. designating and publicizing a point of contact in our organization to assist persons with print disabilities to access our publications;
5. testing our digital publications for accessibility, incorporating appropriate feature descriptions and metadata;
6. monitoring our progress in this area;
7. promoting the adoption of accessibility standards throughout the supply chain; and
8. supporting national and international collaboration with organizations representing persons with print disabilities so as to increase the availability of publications in accessible formats.

You can find all the signatories of the ABC’s Charter for Accessible Publishing at their website.

For a list of websites offering Accessible Books for sale, please click here.