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According to the 2016 Disability Statistics Annual Report, “The overall rate of people with disabilities in the US population in 2015 was 12.6%.” This means tens of millions of people in the United States alone, but making work accessible serves a far larger population even than that. As has often been noted, most of us, if we live long enough, will experience a disability at some point. Many of the steps taken to create accessible texts makes them better, more reader‐ friendly, and more usable to everyone—those with or without impairments. This session’s focus on accessibility will consider how libraries, publishers, and vendors can work together to ensure that all readers can access electronic books and texts. Organized by the AUPress’s Library Relations Committee, this panel features librarians, publishers, and vendors who will discuss what they’re doing to engage with accessibility challenges and opportunities. This session will be of benefit to librarians providing access to materials for patrons, publishers putting out accessible materials, and vendors providing services that increase accessibility of materials for all readers. The session also will focus on how these groups can partner and learn from one another to create more and better accessible products. Bill Kasdorf, Principal, Kasdorf & Associates, LLC [This is a summary of the presentation given by Bill Kasdorf at the 2018 Charleston Conference.] In the past, accessibility has been seen as a burden. But today, increasingly, it’s being seen as a benefit. Not just for those with disabilities, but for everybody. By making both publications and the platforms and systems that deliver them accessible, we make them easier to use by everybody. Accessibility makes our products and processes better. It makes our publications easier to read and navigate by providing good, logical structure and reading order, the ability to access them on various devices, and read‐ aloud functionality when we need hands free or to keep our eyes on the road. It makes our systems and applications easier to use, too, by providing things like labels on buttons and forms and keyboard equivalents for everything. There are so many things in our daily lives that we now take for granted but which were originally created for accessibility. Think how much we appreciate curb cuts when we’re dragging a heavy suitcase to a hotel or taking a child in a stroller for a walk. Closed captioning on videos enables us to watch in noisy places where we couldn’t hear the dialog, or in quiet places where the sound isn’t appropriate. And think how much voice assistants like Siri and Alexa have become part of the family. All of these technologies were originally created for accessibility. The industry is working on making accessibility something we take for granted, just as we now take curb cuts for granted. Publications should be “born accessible.” They shouldn’t require special workflows or postpublication enhancement or remediation to be accessible, as they most often do now. Instead, the standard publications we make should be accessible from the start. The good news is that for publishers, and for those who deliver publications, like libraries, making publications and systems accessible is much easier than it used to be. The main reason for this is that today accessibility is largely based on Web standards. The Open Web Platform (OWP) is fundamental. The W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) provide the foundation for accessibility, both for content and systems. Most accessibility standards, recommendations, and specifications

Access for All: How Libraries, Publishers, and Vendors Can Collaborate on Accessible Products