Accessibility

Last updated: April 17, 2025

Our Commitment to Accessibility

Books International is actively making our web content as accessible as possible to the widest possible audience. As an eBook distributor, we are assisting our publishers in making their content available in accessible formats.

We guide ourselves by the standards and specifications defined by W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, including W3C’s EPUB 3.3 Recommendation and W3C’s EPUB 1.1 Conformance and Discoverability Requirements. These in turn lead to conformance with the following regulations:

• The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which provides civil rights to Americans with disabilities in many areas including communications.
• The European Accessibility Act (EAA), which enters into force in the European Union on June 28, 2025.
• American federal law Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, which requires agencies to provide individuals with disabilities equal access to electronic information and data comparable to those who do not have disabilities.

We strive to ensure that our published works follow these principles:

• Content is structured in a clear, coherent reading order and semantically tagged for easy and logical navigation.
• Color when used is high contrast for easy readability.
• MathML is used for equations, which renders them readable by assistive technology.
• Passages are tagged in non-English languages so that screen readers can pronounce them properly.
• We are working to include both alternative text (alt text) for images and accessibility information in our metadata. 

eBook Conversions

In January 2025, we began contacting our vendors for remediation services and our Onix recipient partners to provide accessibility metadata from ONIX Code List 196.

By the end of March 2025, all new titles being produced by our publishers meet the modern accessibility standards. In April 2025, we began contacting our publishers to schedule remediation of recent and best-selling backlist. Due to the costs, complexity, and scale of our existing publication list, deep backlist will be remediated on request. Completion of this portion of the project is expected by August 30, 2025.

Please email accessibility@booksintl.com if you have a request for a fully accessible EPUB 3 edition; we will review these requests as part of our accessibility roadmap. 

Alternative Formats

Books International does not directly provide our publishers’ digital files to institutions or individual students. We send accessibility metadata to each of our vendors (whether in Onix 3.0 or within the epub file itself, as every e book seller has its own requirements) and distribute accessible files as noted above.

Website Accessibility Tools

Aspects of the Books International website are not accessible. We are working on the website, and we expect completion by February 28, 2026.

Contact Us

This work is ongoing. We welcome your feedback at accessibility@booksintl.com.