PressBooks Accessibility

This page gathers the IT Subcommittee's resources and reviews of the accessibility of PressBooks. This page will be updated as new information is available or further reviews are conducted.

Accessibility Overview

PressBooks is a platform for publishing books online. Built off of WordPress, PressBooks offers online publishing in HTML, with options to make the book downloadable in PDF or EPUB formats. We only tested the authoring side and the public/reader side of PressBooks, and didn't do a deep examination of the PDF or EPUB outputs. As such, we can't comment on the non-HTML outputs available for PressBooks.

The PressBooks authoring side is generally accessible. However, when it comes to the publishing/reading side of PressBooks, much of the accessibility of a PressBooks book is left up to whoever has authored it. If the author follows best practices, then the resulting book is accessible.

General Information

• Authoring VPAT (pdf)
• Reading VPAT (pdf)
• PressBooks' Accessibility Page
• PressBooks' Accessibility Standards and Commitments (pdf)

Because so much of the final accessibility of a PressBooks book is up to the author, PressBooks and many universities offer free and open guides to creating accessible books:

• PressBooks's Make Your Book Accessible and Inclusive user guide
• University of Guelph's Making PressBooks Accessible

Known Accessibility Issues

• Back to main Digital Accessibility Group page.