News Summary: EU Accessibility Act Takes Effect, Raising the Bar for Digital Publishing Standards
I decided I should probably write this entry while listening, with bleary-eyed nostalgia, to New Order. Because this story quite simply evokes the line, “I used to think that the day would never come.” I have been writing…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/eu-accessibility-act/
#accessibilitystandards #digitalpublishing #EPUBformat #EUAccessibilityAct #inclusivedesign
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Online-Abendkurs: »Barrierefrei publizieren mit InDesign-PDFs« mit Wolf Kamm
Förderung der Inklusion hat eine gesellschaftspolitische Bedeutung. Für Gestalter bedeutet dies auch ein neues Geschäftsfeld, dass von der Politik und Wirtschaft gefördert wird.
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Infos und Anmeldung:
https://tgm-online.de/programm/veranstaltungen/barrierefrei-publizieren-mit-indesign-pdfs-2025-03
#inklusion #inklusivesdesign #barrierefrei #barrierefreiesdesign #indesign #pdf #inclusion #leichtesprache #euaccessibilityact
@djh Can you give examples of what you mean / how you think they could be improved? Some disabilities (e.g. blindness) seem nigh impossible to fix for maps. Reduced vision should work with regular magnifying tools AFAIK? Others (e.g. fine motor control) might be improved with e.g. keyboard shortcuts.
As for the #EUAccessibilityAct at least it should not currently apply to #OpenStreetMap (it is still based in UK, and even if not, it seems to count as "microenterprise").
In 2025 the #EUAccessibilityAct will require products and services to improve accessibility.
Are digital #Maps covered by this, and if not why not? As of today most if not all maps come with major accessibility issues.
Websites barrierefrei zu gestalten, stelle ich mir sehr herausfordernd vor. Kennt jemand entsprechende Ressourcen zum (kennen)lernen?
Die Einführung des EU Accessibility Act? Das wird teuer! | Developer https://www.heise.de/blog/Die-Einfuehrung-des-EU-Accessibility-Act-Das-wird-teuer-9939623.html #EAA #EUAccessibilityAct #boost 
Applause's fourth annual 📋 #Survey on digital #Accessibility.
Many organizations that serve customers in Europe report that they’re not as prepared for the #EUAccessibilityAct (EAA) June 2025 compliance deadline as they’d like.
🔸 📈 32% on schedule to meet the deadline
🔸 📉 26% somewhat behind
🔸 📉 23% not even started to prepare.
📄 https://www.applause.com/blog/digital-accessibility-2024-survey-results/
Next week I will give my first public conference talk since 2019: "Accessibility in the Digital Age". With the upcoming EU accessibility act, I think it's a great time to come back from hiatus and spread the necessary awareness.
Yesterday I showed an company internal architects group the topic Retrieval Augmented Generation and what it means in terms of architecture and how to play with some alpha code.
Made a demo where it is possible to chat with the EU accessibility act (170 pages PDF) and the WCAG 2.1 guidelines, using the meta/LLAMA-2-70b LLM
Works surprisingly well.
#RetrievalAugmentedGeneration #RAG #LLM #GenAI #Accessibility #llama2 #meta #EUAccessibilityAct #WCAG
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