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Consequently, we put a great deal of effort into making sure that our ebooks are as accessible as possible, for both the books’ content and the supporting metadata.</p> <section id="ebooks"> <h2>Our ebooks</h2> <p>Our ebooks are built using semantic <abbr>XHTML</abbr>. All images and other non-textual content have alternative text to describe their contents, and where appropriate longer descriptions in a list of illustrations. All our ebooks are, to the best of our knowledge, compliant with <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/"><abbr>WCAG</abbr> 2.2</a> level AA and <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-a11y-11/">EPUB Accessibility 1.1</a>.</p> <p>We use metadata to indicate the accessibility of our ebooks. 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