Milne Open Textbooks is committed to providing equitable access to our educational materials for all users. We strive to ensure our website and textbooks conform to the World Wide Web Consortium Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 Level AA, and applicable requirements of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Our website is built upon the WordPress platform. Learn more about WordPress’ Accessibility. Our learning materials are largely produced through the electronic book publishing platform, Pressbooks, and can be accessed in a variety of online and downloadable formats. Learn more about Pressbooks’ Accessibility Resources and VPAT.
We are actively working to ensure that the Milne Open Textbooks website and the “View Online” versions of our materials follow accessible design best practices. Our goal is to meet WCAG 2.2 Level AA standards and provide a user-friendly experience for all users, including those using assistive technologies.
We are actively evaluating and improving our content and platforms to enhance accessibility. This includes ongoing remediation efforts, testing, and alignment with WCAG 2.2 standards.
Descriptive transcripts and audio descriptions are the responsibility of that content’s author, which is often embedded from a separately hosted site. Milne Open Textbooks supports the inclusion of descriptive transcripts and audio descriptions for media hosted directly on the Milne Publishing Pressbooks platform.
Some texts available via our SUNY Community textbook catalog include third-party user-contributed content. In these cases, it is often not possible to ensure accessibility of the submitted content. However, as resources are available and where possible, content has been converted to HTML and remediated, though the original downloads may retain their original errors. Audio and video captioning and transcripts for embedded content are the responsibility of the third-party user-contributor. We are working to improve these areas as resources allow.
If you’ve encountered an accessibility barrier with our website or any of our learning materials, please email us with the following information:
The ACR (completed VPAT) for Milne Open Textbooks is available here.
Content adapted from the Accessibility Statement from OpenStax, Rice University, licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
