Accessibility Metadata draft v.5 has been submitted to the W3C for the...
The AccessibilitY Metadata proposal was officially submitted to the W3C schema.org process on Monday, April 15, 2013. Details of the submission can be seen in the email to the W3C public vocabs list....
View ArticleAccessibility Metadata Best Practices Guide draft available
A few major milestones have been achieved in the past week. Our best practices guide, weighing in at 33 pages in it’s v.5 version, is now available on the Resources page. If you have a question on...
View ArticleBookshare tags over 195,000 titles with accessibility metadata
Bookshare, the world’s largest online library of accessible eBooks for people with print disabilities, has just added accessibility metadata to its full library of over 195,000 titles. “We’ve had the...
View ArticleErlend Øverby of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 36 sends support of Accessibility Metadata...
As work on the accessibility metadata vocabulary finalizes and our submission to schema.org receives more attention, notable individuals, companies and standards groups are expressing their support....
View ArticleJoin the discussion in progress concerning this Accessibility Metadata proposal
There’s nothing like a return from summer and a Dublin Core metadata conference, where people are face to face in the same location, to get people reading and paying attention to our specification....
View ArticleAccessibility Metadata in action at Teachers’ Domain
As the schema.org proposal receives more attention, there have been numerous questions concerning the utility of mediaFeature and accessMode for both the search and usefulness of accessible content....
View ArticleSchema.org Accepts our Proposal!
I am delighted to announce that Schema.org has accepted our proposal for a key set of accessibility metadata tagging that could allow anyone with access to the Internet to more easily locate content...
View ArticleLearning Registry Blazes New Trails with Accessibility Metadata
As I announced earlier this month, Schema.org recently adopted our proposal for accessibility metadata tagging that will make it possible for anyone with access to the Internet and a search engine to...
View ArticleWordPress “WP YouTube Lyte” Plug-in Now Supports Schema.org Accessibility...
At Benetech, one of the Seven Truths we live by is, “partnership over going alone.” Our collaboration with Frank Goossens is a fantastic example of the effectiveness of that principle. Recently,...
View ArticleAccessibility Metadata Project: Final Report
Submitted by Madeleine Rothberg, NCAM, WGBH As the Accessibility Metadata Project funding with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has concluded, we wish to thank them very much for their support...
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