Accessible Publishing

Making Educational Materials at W. W. Norton & Company

Evan Yamanishi

Accessibility Lead

Co-Director of the Norton Lab

Matt Vitale

Media Accessibility Specialist

The Norton Anthology of English Literature
Chemistry: The Science in Context
The Food Lab by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
Fight Club

Digital Media

The Norton Ebook Reader

InQuizitive

Smartwork

PowerPoint

Creating a Culture of Universal Design

Looking Back at the Past Two Years

Disability Support

at

Lansing Community College

The LCC Stars

Company-wide Training

Evan's 2015 presentation, Understanding Accessibility: from Disability to Universal Design

A User-Centered Approach

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Keyboard users

Screen reader users

Users with a hearing impairment

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american sign language
An Ishihara color test plate with the number 74 in green, surrounded by red

Users with color blindness

Users with invisible disabilities

Identify Advocates

  • Interaction Design (UX)
  • Development
  • Product Team (Analysts/QA)
  • Editorial
  • Production

Making Educational Materials

Norton Product Accessibility

InQuizitive

The Ebook Platform

Innovation
through accessibility

A Recent Example

Obstacles and Challenges

Scaling Accessibility

Easy to Do, Hard to Scale

  • Remediating/updating legacy content
  • Semantic inflection
  • Compliance
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Alt Text

A map shows the slave trade across the Atlantic between 1460 and 1770. A map shows thirty-two percent of slaves were shipped to the Portuguese Empire in South America. Seven percent of slaves were shipped to the Dutch Colonies in South America. Thirteen percent of slaves were shipped to Spanish colonies in Central America. Twenty-four percent of slaves were shipped to the British Caribbean. Seventeen percent of slaves were shipped to the French Caribbean. Four percent of slaves were shipped to the British colonies in North America. Three percent of slaves were shipped to England and other slaves were transported to other areas of Northern Africa.

Looking Ahead

  • Expanding accessibility group
  • Born accessible with the Norton Lab
  • CSUN 2018 Talks
  • W3C: ARIA & Publishing Working Groups, Personalization
  • Collaboration opportunities

Thank
You!

Accessible Publishing: Making Educational Materials at W.W. Norton & Company

By Evan Yamanishi

Source: Evan Yamanishi

Accessible Publishing: Making Educational Materials at W.W. Norton & Company

A presentation for the Miami University's 2017 Assistive Technology Summit.

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