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The early bird deadline for our in-depth training series on Accessibility
Essentials is almost here! Sign up by Monday, March 17
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/accessibility-essentials-a-2025-niso-training-series-tickets-1141346270419?aff=oddtdtcreator>
for the best rates to this eight-work course led by accessibility experts
and get up to speed on making scholarly content, programs, and services
more inclusive.

Accessibility Essentials
<https://niso.org/events/accessibility-essentials-2025-niso-training-series>

Thursdays, 11:00 am–12:30 pm EDT (US/Canada)

April 3–May 22, 2025

This training series will empower attendees with actionable insights and
practical guidance on accessibility compliance for professionals in the
information community. Attendees will come away with an operational
understanding of what it means to engage in accessible publishing and
methods to ensure their organizations are prepared to achieve accessibility
compliance. The course will cover upcoming regulatory changes;
accessibility standards and best practices; and human-centered web design.
>From production to public relations, Accessibility Essentials will be an
invaluable resource for information practitioners, content or product
development experts, and scholarly communications professionals.

Training Facilitators: Lettie Conrad, Product Experience Architect for
LibLynx and Instructor at San José State University’s School of
Information, and Simon Holt, Senior Product Manager, Content Accessibility
at Elsevier.

Guest speakers include Will Awad, Founder, iAccessDigital; Bridget Burke,
Senior Front-end Developer and Accessibility Specialist, University of
Michigan Library; Bill Kasdorf, Principal, Kasdorf & Associates, LLC and
Founding Partner, Publishing Technology Partners; Jack McElaney, Chief
Revenue Officer, Microassist; and Simon Mellins, Independent Digital
Publishing Consultant and Accessibility Specialist, Simon Mellins
Consulting.

Event Sessions

Each session in the series will address a key question:


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   What is inclusive publishing, and why do we care about accessibility?
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   What are the legal ramifications for nonaccessible content, services,
   and other programs?
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   How do we establish an inclusive publishing program?
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   How do we establish an inclusive design program?
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   How do we implement accessible web designs?
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   How do we implement inclusive content production?
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   How do we retrofit backlist titles and remediate existing products?
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   What is our inclusive publishing strategy going forward?


Recordings of each session will be made available to course registrants
within two business days of the close of the specific session.

See the NISO website for more information and to register
<https://niso.org/events/accessibility-essentials-2025-niso-training-series>.
Discounts are available for NISO Voting Members, LSA Members (including LSA
Consortia Members), and groups.

We hope you’ll join us and take advantage of this unique opportunity to
build your knowledge in a critical and evolving area in scholarly
communications! And remember to sign up by Monday, March 17
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/accessibility-essentials-a-2025-niso-training-series-tickets-1141346270419?aff=oddtdtcreator>
for early bird rates.

Best,

The NISO Team



NISO
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302
Baltimore, MD 21211
Phone: 301.654.2512
E-mail: nisohq at niso.org
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