Digital Publishing Services

Accessibility

Acrux is a proven and able provider of accessibility services, which complies with the requirements and standards of ADA, 508 & WCAG standards. Clients across industries, around the world have used the accessibility and remediation services of Acrux to tackle their accessibility-related challenges. With its expert team and innovative accessible platform, Acrux performs document accessibility audits, remediation, and conformance validation and have assisted clients across a variety of industry verticals in their need for accessibility. Over the years, we have gained experience and exposure all the time accessibility services which include, consulting, training, auditing and remediation.

Our services are not limited to

Document Accessibility executed in line with ADA/508 Compliance

ePub Accessibility Services

eLearning Content Accessibility Solutions

Creation of Interactive Content conforming to Accessibility norms

Creation & Insertion of Alt Text image descriptions

Web Content Accessibility as per WCAG 2.1 guidelines

Accessible Forms, PDFs and other documents

Caption / Transcription for audio

The team at Acrux start with ascertaining the scope of the project after its receipt. The process starts with

Analysis of provided documents or websites and relevant materials for feasibility

Itemising the images accordingly as Tables, infographics, Mathematical drawings, graphical representations etc.,

Devising of the processes and execution model along with the challenges

Scope of the project includes

Complete analysis of the Source documents

Appropriate tagging

ALT text insertion.

Bookmark Creation

Checking Document Properties.

Validation and reports

With effective and stringent quality control processes combined with the understanding of the requirement, a wide range of assistive technologies, are used to check the final product for its compliance with the standard requirements. The technology assists in asserting the method in which a PDF or a document is be tagged or remediated for accessibility. Our test set-up includes

Speech recognition: Dragon Naturally Speaking

Screen readers: JAWS (versions 9 to 2020/Fusion), NVDA

Screen magnifiers: ZoomText (versions 11 to 2020/Fusion), SuperNova, MAGic

Literacy software: Read&Write Gold 12 (PDF Reader) and 11 (PDF Aloud), Claro Read

Validations

The validation process is done with multiple methods to ensure the final product passes through the final Quality audit. It involves

Full Check

Common Look

PAC Version 3.0

Web Accessibility

Our team of experts has extensive experience in evaluating websites and applications for accessibility, ensuring that they meet the needs of all users, including those with disabilities.

Our current capabilities include:

Automated testing tools (Axe, Accessibility Insights, WAVE, Color contrast analyser) Manual testing and evaluation by accessibility experts Testing with assistive technologies (NVDA, Narrator, JAWS, Voice over, talkback, Accessibility scanner) User testing with individuals with disabilities Compliance with web accessibility guidelines (WCAG 2.0 & 2.1, Section 508, EN-EU, RGAA)

As part of our commitment to providing the best possible web accessibility assessments, we are continuously expanding our capabilities. In the near future, we plan to:

In the near future, we plan to:

Offer training and support to clients on web accessibility best practices Invest in more advanced automated testing tools and techniques Develop new assessment methodologies that address the evolving needs of our clients and the web accessibility community Expand our team of accessibility experts to better serve our clients’ needs. We believe that our web accessibility assessment capabilities and expansion plans position us as a leader in the industry, and we are confident that we can provide the highest level of accessibility assessments to meet your needs.

Digital Conversion

The changing trends and technologies have made this century a digital paradise. The global business environment has become digital-friendly. To ensure your presence in the digital space Acrux provides a list of conversion services. The highly trained digital conversion specialists can deal with all types of digital conversions predominantly XML and eBook conversion Services, from any input format and have them converted suiting various reading devices and distribution platforms. The services that we offer are:

XML

XML Conversion with various DTDs – JATS, BITS, NLM for PubMed, Atypon and Highwire

eBooks

Digital eBook formats – ePub3 (Reflowable, Fixed layout), Kindle fixed layout and reflow, HTML5, Multimedia and Animation

Promo Video creation and editing

Digitization

Project Management

Our approach to project management is flexible as every project is unique and requires different planning and implementation as per its technical requirements. With abled project managers who facilitate smooth and seamless operations have a thorough understanding of the process from concept to production. They effectively ensure that the deliverables qualify the criteria.

Acrux’s robust and streamlined project management framework ensures that our project managers have complete control over every project – from launch to delivery.

Our project manager communicates with all stakeholders and takes care of all production stages in a concise, timely, and appropriate manner.

Digital Publishing services

The services that we offer are:

Schedule creation and agreement
Copyediting management
Artwork redrawing or relabeling management
Proof distribution and progress chasing
Collation of corrections and handling of author queries
Management of further proof rounds
Index creation
Print file testing with a designated printer

Content Enrichment/ Editorial Services

The most important of the editorial process is copy editing. Our editors are postgraduates and doctorates in their respective disciplines and can handle the editing of simplest to the most complex content. Be it the reviewing of manuscript or language polishing or structuring of content our team can do it with ease. The knowledge of the requisite styles and specs helps them to adapt to the requirement and deliver crisp content, making reading an enjoyable experience for the readers. The tasks covered under the editorial segment at Acrux includes

Manuscript preparation

Language polishing

Structuring of content

Copyediting – all levels

Editorial proofreading

Page Composition

Acrux delivers high-quality composition services for publishers using the state-of-art cap capabilities Adobe InDesign, 3B2 and LaTeX. We can handle any complexity of content or page design on all three platforms. We customize the XML workflow according to the requirement for long-term success and maintain the integrity of the content throughout the process. The services that we offer are:

Template creation

Books/Journals Interior Design Cover

Print-ready files

Pitstop Reports

Art and Illustration

Creative artists are known to produce art pieces as per requirement. Whether it be simple line art or a complex mythological drawing or a cartoon or a map, our graphic designers can deliver accurate and impeccable designs.

With hands-on experience in using designing software’s like Photoshop, Illustrator, Corel Draw and MS Paint, our creative team have handled many anatomical, situational children book art requirements including book covers.

The team is not only skilled at producing fresh pieces of art but also can work on the enhancement of the existing images by performing colour correction, relabelling and file format conversion.