Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
10 results found in accessible publishing.
- Accessible Publishing (Inclusive Publishing, Born Accessible Publishing)
- The practice of creating digital publications — including e-books, journals, and documents — that are accessible to people with disabilities from the point of creation rather than through after-the-fa…
- Braille Translator (Braille translation software)
- Software that converts print text (and sometimes marked-up content such as LaTeX or MathML) into correctly formatted Braille output, applying contractions, code switches, and page-layout rules. Braill…
- DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System, DAISY Consortium)
- An international standard and consortium dedicated to making published information accessible to people with print disabilities including blindness, low vision, dyslexia, and physical disabilities tha…
- Duxbury Braille Translator (Duxbury, DBT)
- A commercial Braille translation software package (Duxbury Systems) widely used by transcribers and production agencies to convert print text and documents into contracted and uncontracted Braille, in…
- EPUB (EPUB 3, Electronic Publication)
- An open standard file format for digital books and publications maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), formerly by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). EPUB 3, the current ma…
- ICADD (International Committee on Accessible Document Design)
- A non-profit organization that developed techniques for making structured electronic documents accessible to people with print disabilities. ICADD created the SDA (SGML Document Access) mechanism — a …
- InftyReader (Infty Reader)
- A specialised optical character recognition (OCR) system designed to recognise mathematical expressions in scanned documents, developed by the Infty Project (Suzuki et al.). Unlike general-purpose OCR…
- Marrakesh Treaty (Marrakesh VIP Treaty, WIPO Marrakesh Treaty)
- An international treaty adopted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 2013 that requires signatory countries to create copyright exceptions allowing the production and distribution…
- Single-Source Publishing (Single-Source Authoring, Multi-Channel Publishing)
- An authoring and publishing methodology where content is written and maintained in one master source and then automatically transformed into multiple output formats such as HTML, PDF, Braille, or mobi…
- Unicode (Unicode Standard, UTF-8)
- A universal character encoding standard that assigns a unique code point to every character in every writing system, enabling consistent representation and processing of text across all platforms, pro…