To serve our customers and to make online content accessible to everyone, Brill is seeking to publish its material as inclusively as possible. To this end, Brill has improved the accessibility of its published content for the visually impaired. Brill’s websites are easily accessible for everyone.
Most of our content is available in both PDF and HTML format. However, for those books which cannot easily be accessed by those who are visually impaired, Brill introduces Accessibility on Demand.
Brill is committed to ensure our websites are easily accessible for everyone. By adopting best practices and striving to adhere to current guidelines and recommendations we are continuously working towards improving accessibility. Wherever possible, Brill strives to comply with Section 508 Amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, EN 201 549 Accessibility requirements suitable for public procurement of ICT products and services in Europe – v2.1.2 (2018-08) and level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2). Brill is committed to ensuring that our platforms comply with the European Accessibility Act.
Copy and Printing
The absence of Digital Rights Management software on our platform means assistive technology users should experience no barriers caused by print or copy restrictions.
Browser and mobile device support
Brill is optimized for modern browsers including Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Google Chrome. You may experience unexpected behavior in other browsers, although we use fully validated code which should work on any browser. Brill.com is responsive, it re-organizes itself depending on the screen size and orientation of the device being used to view it. We test the experience on various devices including most popular IOS, Android and MS Windows phones and tablets.
How accessible is this website?
The majority of this website is fully accessible, and we run regular audits to identify any new problems. However, we know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:
- Some of our content in PDF format has not been designed for accessibility. This includes for example older archive content reproduced from original printed sources.
- Heading use within content is not always consistent and not always useful for navigation.
- Form fields are not always appropriately labeled.
- Instructions and errors for the forms are also not programmatically associated with the forms.
- Some parts of the website are not very easy to navigate using keyboard (e.g. when the site is viewed at high magnification, essential navigation collapses into non-keyboard navigable elements).
- A number of images within HTML format content don’t include alt tags but most include adjacent description.
- The site can be switched to alternate language, and the language of the page is set correctly. However, the language conversion doesn’t modify all of the site functionality, and screen readers seem to auto-detect the site as English, overriding the site setting. This might be configurable for an individual screen reader user.
- Any given page may contain bilingual information. Page subsections, especially those provided by the content editors, do not have language identifiers, which causes unusual behavior for screen readers.