Your partner for premium accessibility
From new titles to existing backlists, we help you make your content accessible without adding unnecessary complexity to your production process.
Do you recognize these challenges?
- EAA: accessible ebooks required since June 2025
- A backlist produced before accessibility was required
- Retailers requiring accessibility metadata before they accept a file
- No in-house accessibility expertise or tooling
- Consistent quality across a growing catalogue
Two approaches. One experienced partner.
Accessibility is no longer a nice-to-have, it is an essential part of modern publishing. Since 28 June 2025, the European Accessibility Act has required accessible ebooks for the EU market: for new titles and, in most EU countries, for existing backlists too. Whether you are producing a new title or bringing an existing backlist into compliance, Crius Group offers two complementary approaches to help you create Accessible ePub3 files, whichever situation you start from.
Both paths end with the same three steps: AI-assisted alt text, ePub validation (automated checks plus expert review) and accessibility-enriched ONIX metadata. You receive the file with a quality report and a separate alt-text file.
The process at a glance
Build accessibility into your process
Accessibility by design
When you work with Crius Group on typesetting, Accessible ePub3 is an extension of the production process itself. Our own technology ensures that accessibility is built in from the start, so you get efficient production without a separate project.
Key benefits
- Accessibility integrated into the typesetting process
- Efficient production of Accessible ePub3,
- Two-tier quality control: automated validation plus expert review,
- Print and digital formats from one production process.
Make your existing titles accessible
Accessibility remediation
Whether you have a backlist, existing ePub files or titles from another provider, we help convert your content within 10 working days into Accessible ePub3 through our customer portal.
Key benefits
- AI-assisted alt-text, delivered separately for easy review
- Support for existing titles and backlists
- Accessibility-enriched ONIX metadata
- Customer portal for easy submission
- Automated validation and expert quality checks
Why Crius Group?
Two-tier quality control
Automated validation (Ace by DAISY, your distributor's scheme and our own checker) plus expert review, with a quality report delivered with every file.
AI-assisted alt text
Alt text and long descriptions written with the book's context in mind, inserted into the ePub3 and also delivered as a separate file for easy review.
Accessibility-enriched ONIX metadata
ONIX metadata that tells retailers your file's compliance level and accessibility features, delivered alongside your Accessible ePub3.
Fully managed service
One point of contact from request and offer to production, quality control, delivery and invoicing, with predictable lead times and consistent quality at scale.
Ready to publish accessibly?
Together, we’ll find the right solution to make your new and existing publications accessible and ensure they comply with applicable accessibility legislation.
