Digital Accessibility

Digital accessibility ensures that everyone can use digital products and services – mobile applications, documents, multimedia, etc. – regardless of their ability or situation. It benefits a wide range of people including those:

• With permanent disabilities such as blindness, limited hearing, loss of a limb, dyslexia, etc.
• Experiencing short term disabilities that result in eventual recovery, such as an ear infection, migraine, carpal tunnel, etc.
• In a situation or environment that changes how technology is used, such as being in a loud room or in bright sunshine.
• Impacted by technology-based limitations, including a slow and/or no Internet connection.
• With long-term disabilities that are brought on by age, such as sight or mobility loss.

Pilot Project

Digital accessibility encompasses several issues that need to be considered while preparing manuscripts. Thus, we set up this pilot project to initially focus on a few points, specifically on the alternative text for a short description of a figure (please see the Alternative Text – Authoring Guide). In addition, the color contrast levels of illustrations can be checked and corrected if necessary (please see the Color Contrast Guide).

Gradually, we will add further instructions, for example, on how to create accessible graphs and increase the number of journals participating in the pilot project accordingly.

The documents available on this page apply only to the following journals participating in the pilot project:

• New Phytologist
• Plant–Environment Interactions
• Plants, People, Planet