Milne Open Textbooks is committed to ensuring that our textbooks are as accessible as possible to the widest possible audience. 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.
Our goal is to ensure that Milne Open Textbooks and the web view/View Online versions of our learning materials follow accessible web design best practices and that they will meet the W3C-WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 at Level AA and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. The WCAG guidelines explain ways to make web content more accessible for people with disabilities and more user-friendly for everyone.
The text in our books, including the headers, features and exercises, is designed to be as reader-friendly as possible on-screen. Math content embedded in the Pressbooks platform is rendered in MathML, which is an accessible format that can be read with screen readers and styled with CSS.
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’re working hard to achieve our goal of WCAG 2.2/Level AA accessibility, but we realize there are some areas that still need improving. We are actively working to resolve issues that may hinder accessibility according to the guidelines we mentioned.
You can help us to meet our accessibility goals by letting us know about your experience with Milne Open Textbook(s).
If you’ve encountered an accessibility problem 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.
