On June 28, 2025, the European Accessibility Act (EAA) took effect, requiring all new ebooks sold in the EU to be fully accessible. There was a second requirement that all ebooks published before this date be made accessible by June 28, 2030.
I am in a program where the classroom is an example of a trade press, and I assist in the book publishing process. Yet, when I get home, I can’t read the printed books. This is the reality of being visually impaired at Ooligan Press.
I performed extensive research on accessible text formatting and layout design for children’s publishing. I paired this information with multiple case studies to exemplify accessible title text formatting and layout simplicity for intentional accessible children’s book design.
How do you choose a font? Leave the default in? Google the top five fonts for fiction and pick one? Research which fonts are accessible? There are a few basic principles that should be considered before everything else.
Ready to take your ebook production to the next level? In this post, I dive into the technical steps of building accessible InDesign files, from creating a navigable table of contents to ensuring your content is screen-reader friendly. If you’re looking to make your ebooks more inclusive and improve their accessibility, you won’t want to miss these expert tips!
Being a college student, I am often hesitant to outright purchase or even rent my college textbooks. Even more so when the course’s material is a trade nonfiction or fiction, which is common for my fine arts courses. I typically try to find these titles through the library, so imagine my surprise when nearly four years into my degree I discovered the Libby app.
Creating accessible content means that a person with a disability can absorb the same information, engage with your content, and enjoy the same services as someone without a disability effectively and efficiently. At Ooligan Press, we’re committed to learning more about how to make our content, including our e-books, as accessible as possible.
While some authors may think that including warnings in their books will deter potential readers, it can actually have quite the opposite effect.