How do you make your books, journals, research papers and other forms of content fully accessible?

Date: Now Live
Time: Now Live
Duration: 60 Minutes

Webinar

About the Webinar

Making your content accessible means factoring the needs of those with visual impairment, deafness, dyslexia and other hidden disabilities. Which is easier said than done. To start with, you have the complexity of text, images and tables. There’s the complexity of layout, involving the adaptation of a style that was originally created for the print medium. Finally, there’s the challenge of managing various file formats and interactive features.

How do you make your books, journals, research papers and other forms of content fully accessible?

Learn all about it in this webinar, where Bill Kasdorf, Michael Johnson and Will Awad, renowned experts in the field of Digital Accessibility discuss why content accessibility of scholarly content is important and how publishers can make their titles born accessible:

  • The tools and formats that make accessibility simple.
  • The role of Benetech and the Global Certified Accessible Program.

About - Will Awad

Director - Digital Accessibility & Publishing Solutions @Newgen

Will is an experienced professional, with a history of working in the information technology and publishing services industry like Thomson Reuters, OUP, Justis. He guides our accessibility projects and helps with conforming our client's projects with usability and accessibility requirements of section 508 American with Disability Act (ADA) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Law and a Masters in International Law.

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Will Awad