{"id":30,"date":"2020-02-21T23:12:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T23:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/pressbooksguide\/chapter\/accessibility-for-administrators\/"},"modified":"2024-09-13T18:25:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T18:25:45","slug":"accessibility-for-administrators","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/openpressguide\/chapter\/accessibility-for-administrators\/","title":{"raw":"Accessibility of Pressbooks","rendered":"Accessibility of Pressbooks"},"content":{"raw":"
Last update: July 23, 2024<\/div>\r\nPressbooks has stated their commitment to ensuring their software is accessible to all people using the tool, whether they are creators or readers.\r\n

Commitment to accessibility<\/h1>\r\nSee \"Accessibility - Pressbooks<\/a>\" to read Pressbooks' commitment to accessibility and review their most recent VPAT (Voluntary Product Assessment Template), which describes the accessibility of the platform.\r\n

Accessibility features for Pressbooks users<\/h1>\r\nPressbooks provides a number of accessibility features to support people who are using Pressbooks to create or adapt content.\r\n\r\n\"PressbooksSee \"Use Accessibility Features Provided by Pressbooks<\/a>\" in the Pressbooks User Guide.<\/em>\r\n

Creating accessible content in Pressbooks<\/h1>\r\n
\r\n\r\nTo learn more about how to create accessible content when authoring in Pressbooks, see the Accessibility Toolkit<\/em><\/a>.\r\n\r\nIt covers the basics of making digital educational materials accessible and includes guidelines for how to apply that to Pressbooks.\r\n\r\n*Please note that the\u00a0Accessibility Toolkit\u00a0<\/em>was created for users of the BCcampus Open Ed Pressbooks instance. However, the content is relevant to creating and using content in any Pressbooks context.\r\n\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"
Last update: July 23, 2024<\/div>\n

Pressbooks has stated their commitment to ensuring their software is accessible to all people using the tool, whether they are creators or readers.<\/p>\n

Commitment to accessibility<\/h1>\n

See “Accessibility – Pressbooks<\/a>” to read Pressbooks’ commitment to accessibility and review their most recent VPAT (Voluntary Product Assessment Template), which describes the accessibility of the platform.<\/p>\n

Accessibility features for Pressbooks users<\/h1>\n

Pressbooks provides a number of accessibility features to support people who are using Pressbooks to create or adapt content.<\/p>\n

\"PressbooksSee “Use Accessibility Features Provided by Pressbooks<\/a>” in the Pressbooks User Guide.<\/em><\/p>\n

Creating accessible content in Pressbooks<\/h1>\n
\n

To learn more about how to create accessible content when authoring in Pressbooks, see the Accessibility Toolkit<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

It covers the basics of making digital educational materials accessible and includes guidelines for how to apply that to Pressbooks.<\/p>\n

*Please note that the\u00a0Accessibility Toolkit\u00a0<\/em>was created for users of the BCcampus Open Ed Pressbooks instance. However, the content is relevant to creating and using content in any Pressbooks context.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"menu_order":3,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-30","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":23,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/openpressguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/openpressguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/openpressguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/openpressguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/openpressguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/openpressguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/30\/revisions\/312"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/openpressguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/23"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/openpressguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/30\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/openpressguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/openpressguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/openpressguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/openpressguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}