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Have a Book is a one-stop shop for educational publishers in Europe — a professional place to produce and print top-quality books and convert them into e-books.

09/04/2026

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Dostępności nie da się „dodać” na końcu.

W dniach 8–9 kwietnia prowadziliśmy szkolenie „Dostępny ePub w procesie wydawniczym” dla Oficyny Wydawniczej Szkoły Głównej Handlowej w Warszawie SGH Warsaw School of Economics.

To były dwa intensywne dni pracy, podczas których skupiliśmy się przede wszystkim na tym, jak wdrożyć dostępność w proces wydawniczy i przygotowywać odpowiednio pliki w formacie ePub.

Rozmawialiśmy m.in. o:
• strukturze i semantyce ePubów
• pracy w Adobe InDesign i jego ograniczeniach
• składzie hybrydowym i przygotowaniu publikacji „born accessible”
• tekstach alternatywnych, tabelach, wzorach matematycznych i nawigacji
• walidacji oraz testowaniu w czytnikach

Duży nacisk położyliśmy na praktykę i pokazanie, że dostępność to nie jeden etap, ale decyzje podejmowane na każdym kroku pracy nad publikacją.

Szkolenie poprowadził Tomasz Mnich, inżynier IT specjalizujący się w aplikacjach webowych, z wieloletnim doświadczeniem we współpracy z wydawnictwami edukacyjnymi, który tworzy narzędzia wspierające pracę w środowisku Adobe oraz rozwija oprogramowanie do przetwarzania złożonych dokumentów elektronicznych, ze szczególnym naciskiem na dostępność.

👩‍💻 W szkoleniu brała udział również Ewelina Szyszkowska, nasza konsultantka, która wspiera wydawców w osiąganiu dostępności w publikacjach cyfrowych.

🙏 Dziękujemy Oficynie Wydawniczej SGH Warsaw School of Economics za zaufanie!

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Accessibility cannot be added at the end.

On April 8–9, we delivered a training session “Accessible ePub in the publishing process” for the Publishing House of the Warsaw School of Economics.

These were two intensive days focused on how to implement accessibility in the publishing process and how to properly prepare ePub files.

We covered topics such as:
• ePub structure and semantics
• working in Adobe InDesign and its limitations
• hybrid layout and preparing born accessible publications
• alt text, tables, mathematical formulas, and navigation
• validation and testing in reading systems

We placed strong emphasis on practice, showing that accessibility is not a single step, but decisions made at every stage of working on a publication.

The training was led by Tomasz Mnich, an IT engineer specializing in web applications, with many years of experience working with educational publishers, who develops tools supporting Adobe workflows and builds software for processing complex digital documents, with a strong focus on accessibility.

👩‍💻 The training was also attended by Ewelina Szyszkowska, our consultant who supports publishers in achieving accessibility in digital publications.

🙏 Thank you to the Publishing House of SGH for your trust!

09/04/2026

The third WCAG principle may seem the most obvious one: understandable.
But is it really?

In the new article, Monika Zarczuk-Engelsma from Fundacja Polskich Niewidomych i Słabowidzących "Trakt" looks at what “understandable” means in practice and why it goes far beyond simple language.

Even a technically correct ebook can still be confusing if:

– structure is inconsistent
– navigation is unpredictable
– elements are not clearly described

When that happens, readers stop focusing on the content and start figuring out how the book works.

This article shows how small editorial and structural decisions make a real difference.

Read the full article: https://www.haveabook.eu/blog/principle-three-%E2%80%93-understandable

03/04/2026

Happy Easter!🐰🌷
Wishing you a bright and joyful spring.

20/03/2026

Have a Book is among the top 3 publishers shortlisted for the ABC International Excellence Award for Accessible Publishing 2026, and we couldn’t be more proud.

This recognition means a lot to us.
Accessible ebooks are not the result of one step or one team. They are built through a process where everything matters. From the typesetting stage, where we prepare and structure publications with accessibility in mind, to our IT team, which develops tools for conversion, including tools for generating alt text, and works directly on transforming content into accessible ebooks.

This is also the result of collaboration. We are grateful to our partners at Fundacja Polskich Niewidomych i Słabowidzących "Trakt", with whom we work on testing ebooks and developing educational content for our blog.

We would also like to thank Dr Agata Mrva-Montoya from the University of Sydney for the nomination and continued collaboration. We truly appreciate your support and mentorship.

For us, accessibility is not an extra feature. It is a responsibility and a standard we build into every project.

Thank you Monica Halil Lovblad, Mhairi Mackenzie and the Accessible Books Consortium, led by World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO, for this recognition.

Congratulations to all finalists, and we’re looking forward to the awards ceremony at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.

16/03/2026

🇵🇱 PL
Wczoraj, 15 marca, obchodziliśmy Światowy Dzień Praw Konsumenta.

To dobra okazja, aby porozmawiać o tym, jak nowe przepisy dotyczące dostępności produktów i usług wpływają na prawa użytkowników, w tym czytelników e-booków.

• Jak nowe regulacje wpływają na prawa konsumentów?
• Kto może skorzystać z nowych przepisów?
• Co zrobić, gdy usługa cyfrowa lub e-book nie jest dostępny?

W naszym najnowszym wywiadzie rozmawiamy z dr Edytą Zduńską-Leseux, badaczką, wykładowczynią oraz ambasadorką dostępności w Szkole Głównej Handlowej w Warszawie (SGH).

Rozmowę prowadzi Ewelina Szyszkowska z Have a Book.

Wywiad został nagrany pod koniec 2025 roku i dotyczy nowych regulacji wynikających z European Accessibility Act oraz polskiej ustawy wdrażającej tę dyrektywę. Przepisy te rozszerzają prawa konsumentów w zakresie dostępności produktów i usług.

Film został nagrany w języku polskim.
Link do całej rozmowy znajdziecie w komentarzu.

🇬🇧 EN
Yesterday, March 15, we celebrated World Consumer Rights Day.

It is a good opportunity to talk about how new regulations on the accessibility of products and services affect the rights of users, including ebook readers.

• How do the new regulations affect consumer rights?
• Who can benefit from the new regulations?
• What can consumers do if a digital service or an ebook is not accessible?

In our latest interview, we talk with Dr Edyta Zduńska-Leseux, researcher, lecturer and accessibility ambassador at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH).

The conversation is hosted by Ewelina Szyszkowska from Have a Book.

The interview was recorded at the end of 2025 and discusses new regulations resulting from the European Accessibility Act and the Polish law implementing this directive. These regulations expand consumer rights regarding the accessibility of products and services.

The interview was recorded in Polish.
You can find the link to the full conversation in the comments.

10/03/2026

Many ebooks look perfectly fine on screen, yet readers still struggle to use them.

• They cannot jump between chapters.
• The table of contents doesn’t really work.
• Searching for a specific passage becomes frustrating or impossible.

This is exactly the problem addressed by the second WCAG principle: operable.

In the new article on our blog, Monika Zarczuk-Engelsma from Fundacja Polskich Niewidomych i Słabowidzących "Trakt" explains what “operable” really means in the context of ebooks.
Because accessibility does not end when text is technically readable. A book can be visible and still difficult, tiring, or even impossible to use.

The article shows why operability is about structure, navigation, and real usability:
• headings that create a logical map of the book
• navigation that works with screen readers and keyboards
• ebooks that function across different devices and reading environments

Link to the article in the comments 👇

10/02/2026

We’ve just published the second article in our WCAG series on the Have a Book blog, written by Monika Zarczuk-Engelsma from the Fundacja Polskich Niewidomych i Słabowidzących "Trakt".

This time, the focus is on the first WCAG principle: Perceivable. A principle that is absolutely fundamental, because if content cannot be perceived, nothing else really matters.

In the article, Monika looks at perceivability from a publishing perspective and explains:

• what “perceivable” means in practice for ebooks
• why content hidden inside images is one of the most common accessibility issues
• why alt text is not a technical afterthought, but an integral part of the book’s content
• how contrast, colour, and readability influence real reading experiences
• why accessibility starts with editorial decisions, not with code

Accessibility is not an add-on or an ideology. It is a basic condition for participation in reading culture.

If content is not perceivable, the reader is excluded from the very beginning.

Link to the article in the comments 👇📖

13/01/2026

When we talk about digital accessibility, WCAG is usually one of the first terms that comes up. Developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), these guidelines form the foundation of how digital content is designed to be accessible, readable, and usable for everyone.

To help publishers better understand where these standards come from and why they matter in digital publishing practice, we’ve just shared a new article on our blog:

W3C Organisation and WCAG Standard – What Are They and Why Should Book Publishers Know Them?
🔗https://www.haveabook.eu/blog/w3c-organisation-and-wcag-standard-what-are-they-and-why-should-book-publishers-know-them

This article sets the context for a series of upcoming hashtag posts in which we will look more closely at WCAG and its core principles. In this first part, we explain:

• what W3C is and why it matters for publishers
• how WCAG has evolved from its first version in 1999 to today’s WCAG 2.2
• why WCAG is no longer a technical side topic but a key standard for digital publishing

In the next articles, we will focus on the four WCAG principles (pillars): perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust, and show how each of them translates into practical requirements for ebooks and digital publications.

07/01/2026

✨At the beginning of the year, we are taking a moment to look back and share what accessibility meant for Have a Book in 2025 and what we are working towards in 2026.

This reflection started with our contribution to a Publishing Accessibility Action Group report, where we were asked about our accessibility highlights from the past 12 months and our priorities for the year ahead. While gathering our answers, we realised just how much had happened in this area throughout 2025.

That is why we decided to turn this overview into a short summary, bringing together our key accessibility milestones from 2025 and the directions we are continuing to develop in 2026.

🤝Many of these activities were made possible thanks to close cooperation with Fundacja Polskich Niewidomych i Słabowidzących "Trakt" and Polska Izba Książkii. Thank you for a year of shared work, knowledge exchange and building more accessible publishing practices together.

This work is also supported by our involvement in international accessibility initiatives, including the Accessible Books Consortium and the Publishing Accessibility Action Group.

We are looking forward to another year of meaningful, practical and collaborative work on accessibility.

10/12/2025

This year we introduced a new digital format at Have a Book and "Klimatyczne ABC" is our first open access example created in EPUB Flex.✨

📘EPUB Flex is designed for visually rich and complex publications. It keeps the original layout, colours and visual structure while adding accessibility features such as semantic headings, correct reading order, tagged tables and image descriptions. A unique algorithm replaces fonts with freely licensed ones without altering the ebook layout. The result is a file that looks like the print version and works well with screen readers.

🌍"Klimatyczne ABC" is an interdisciplinary introduction to the science of climate change created by experts from the University of Warsaw. It explains the mechanisms, causes and consequences of climate change and presents actions that can help reduce its impact. The EPUB Flex edition makes this knowledge easier to access for all readers, including those using assistive technologies.

👉You can download the EPUB version of Klimatyczne ABC from our website https://www.haveabook.eu/ebooks
and from the University of Warsaw website
https://klimatyczneabc.uw.edu.pl/

08/12/2025

We just published a new article on our blog:
How to Validate Ebooks – From Code Quality to Reader Experience

Once an ebook is ready, it may seem that the work is done. In reality, validation is one of the most important stages of production. At Have a Book, it takes up to half of the entire workflow, because technical accuracy and accessibility directly shape the real reading experience.

This article was created together with Fundacja Polskich Niewidomych i Słabowidzących "Trakt", who bring extensive expertise in testing ebooks with screen readers and evaluating real user experience for blind readers.

We walk through the three key stages of ebook validation:
• automated testing,⚙️
• manual testing,🔍
• testing with screen reader users.🔊

Together, they form a complete quality assurance process that ensures every reader can access content comfortably and equally.

👉If you want to learn how the validation process works in practice and which tools support it best, you can read the full article here: https://www.haveabook.eu/blog/how-to-validate-ebooks-from-code-to-reader-experience

27/11/2025

Our digital team working under the FlyDigit subbrand is proud to present our newest project. We designed and built the new website for IDEAS Integrated Detector Electronics AS, with the entire design and development process led by our colleague Elena Bugrova.

IDEAS develops custom integrated circuits, radiation detection and imaging systems and advanced technologies for use on Earth and in space 🛰️.

The website includes a multi-page structure supported by several CMS collections. We created it entirely in no-code tools to make future updates, content expansion and daily maintenance easy for the IDEAS team.

We focused strongly on accessibility with a clear heading hierarchy, descriptive alt texts, good contrast, readable layouts and a clear and light design ✨ that helps every visitor navigate the website with confidence.

🚀 A new IDEAS digital space is ready to explore https://www.ideas.no/

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