The Digital Publishing Podcast

2 Simons for the price of one! This episode of the Digital Publishing Podcast features my fantastic and very broad conversation with Simon Holt from Elsevier, where he shares his powerful perspective as someone with real lived experience of disability, who has worked in and around publishing and accessibility for many years. CREDITS: Produced and Presented by Simon Mellins Transcript provided by Lumina Datamatics Music: Better Days by penguinmusic at Pixabay

Michael Johnson is an EPUB and accessibility legend - but this is not how his story started. Listen to this episode to hear his journey, and all about the incredible work being done at Benetech to empower readers all over the world, including the revolutionary BookShare service. CREDITS: Produced and Presented by Simon Mellins Transcript provided by Lumina Datamatics Music: Better Days by penguinmusic at Pixabay

This time I'm joined from sunny Cape Town by digital learning consultant and accessibility veteran Kate Whittaker. In this philosophical as well as practical conversation we talk information literacy, apartheid, digital change, libraries, education and a whole lot more.

The best thing about running this show is being able to bring my favourite people on to tell their stories. Huw Alexander is not just one of the nicest people in the publishing accessibility space, but also a true inspiration to me, having branched out from a large publisher to found his own company, in the highly-timely sector of image description. We learn about his fantastic journey, and dive deep into the fascinating and challenging world of image descriptions for diverse publishing. And yes, we talk about AI…

This time we chat with Gregorio Pellegrino, whose technical work on accessibility at the LIA foundation in Italy has had a huge impact on the evolution of the landscape. We learn about his story, how he was 'born accessible' himself, and all about the amazing work of Fondazione LIA.