Michigan Publishing is committed to providing an equitable experience for all individuals by following accessibility standards, responding to user feedback, and providing support and accommodations.

• For questions about digital accessibility, or to report an accessibility issue, contact mpub-help@umich.edu.
• To request ebooks or journal content for remediation or alternative formats, please submit the Request Accessible File Form or email UMP-access@umich.edu.

Digital Product Accessibility

We incorporate accessibility best practices and guidelines into our digital design, development, and production processes and aim to meet the latest WCAG AA standards.

Our teams are in the process of publishing accessibility information for all of the digital products that Michigan Publishing builds, customizes, or licenses. Current accessibility information is available for:

• University of Michigan Press
• Michigan Publishing Services (forthcoming)
• Deep Blue Docs
• Deep Blue Data
• University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection
• Michigan Publishing Journals (forthcoming)
• ACLS Humanities Ebook Collection
• Fulcrum

Evaluations

Michigan Publishing staff complete accessibility evaluations to identify violations and warnings in need of remediation. Evaluators are accessibility specialists, not native screen reader users. The testing environment is typically a Chrome or Firefox browser, VoiceOver or NVDA screen reader, and keyboard.

We do visual checks for link and label text, as well as for color contrast. Color contrast analyzers (color pickers) are used to test for compliance. Our evaluations also include automated testing with ARC toolkit, WAVE, Deque axe, and Accessibility Insights. These tools check for WCAG success criteria.

In addition to our evaluations, we use enterprise scanning software provided by University of Michigan ITS for continual maintenance.

Published content is evaluated using a combination of automated tools and manual processes, primarily Ace by DAISY (EPUB), Ace SMART by DAISY (EPUB), PAC Accessibility Checker (PDF), and Adobe Acrobat (PDF).

Accessibility of this website

Our baseline accessibility target is to meet WCAG 2.2 AA standards.

The last accessibility evaluation for publishing.umich.edu was in February 2026.

The next scheduled accessibility evaluation for this website is in 2027.

This page was last updated on March 19, 2026