Author reflections on creating accessible academic papers

R Menzies, GW Tigwell, M Crabb - ACM Transactions on Accessible …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Academic papers demonstrate inaccessibility despite accessible writing resources made
available by SIGACCESS and others. The move from accessibility guidance to accessibility …

Creating accessible PDFs for conference proceedings

E Brady, Y Zhong, JP Bigham - … of the 12th International Web for All …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
A responsibility we have as researchers is to disseminate the results of our research widely.
A primary way we do this is through research publications. When these publications are not …

[PDF][PDF] The ScienceDirect accessibility journey: A case study

T Gies - Learned publishing, 2018 - academia.edu
This paper presents the journey towards accessible web product development in a large
international publishing and information analytics company as seen by an accessibility …

Paper to html: A publicly available web tool for converting scientific pdfs into accessible html

LL Wang, J Bragg, DS Weld - ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Most scientific papers are distributed in PDF format, which is by default inaccessible to blind
and low vision audiences and people who use assistive reading technology. These access …

An uninteresting tour through why our research papers aren't accessible

JP Bigham, EL Brady, C Gleason, A Guo… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Our research is delivered as Portable Document Format (PDF) documents, and very few
include basic metadata to make them accessible to people with disabilities. As a result …

[PDF][PDF] What goes unseen in accessible publishing: Good practice and remaining gaps

T Gies, S Boucherie, T Narup, A Wise… - European Science …, 2016 - researchgate.net
Accessibility to content for all users, regardless of physical ability, is increasingly added to
the agenda of priorities for academic publishers. Both anti-discrimination laws as well as the …

Improving the accessibility of scientific documents: Current state, user needs, and a system solution to enhance scientific PDF accessibility for blind and low vision …

LL Wang, I Cachola, J Bragg, EYY Cheng… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The majority of scientific papers are distributed in PDF, which pose challenges for
accessibility, especially for blind and low vision (BLV) readers. We characterize the scope of …

Including accessibility within and beyond undergraduate computing courses

A Waller, VL Hanson, D Sloan - Proceedings of the 11th international …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents a unique approach to undergraduate teaching in which accessibility
topics are completely integrated throughout the curriculum, treating accessibility not as a …

Publishing accessible proceedings: the DSAI 2016 case study

M Ribera, R Pozzobon, S Sayago - Universal Access in the Information …, 2020 - Springer
Access to research papers has changed in the last decades: from printed to digital sources,
from close to open access. Despite these changes and broader access to research results …

Accessible Communication and Materials in Higher Education

K Mack - Proceedings of the 24th International ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Students with disabilities face numerous access barriers in higher education institutions. For
example, many students struggle to receive the accommodations that they legally have a …