software and services for scholar-led approaches to open access
CaSSius is a tool to create beautiful paginated PDF documents from NLM/JATS. Under the hood, v0.2 of CaSSius uses the pagination polyfill from pagedjs. It is intended to be part of XML-first/XML-in workflows for scholarly communications but may have alternative uses.
A Reference for Creating Accessible Office Documents
Authors: Digital Education Strategies, The Chang School
Book Description: With much of the world gone digital, learning to create documents that are accessible to everyone is becoming a necessary skill. Intended for a general audience, this free resource reviews a wide range of document authoring applications, including the tools they contain for creating accessible documents, and tests them to ensure they do not contain potential barriers.
Learn how to create accessible word processed documents, spreadsheets, presentation slides, and PDF documents, among others, so they are accessible to everyone.
Etherpad allows you to edit documents collaboratively in real-time, much like a live multi-player editor that runs in your browser. Write articles, press releases, to-do lists, etc. together with your friends, fellow students or colleagues, all working on the same document at the same time.
All instances provide access to all data through a well-documented API and supports import/export to many major data exchange formats. And if the built-in feature set isn’t enough for you, there’s tons of plugins that allow you to customize your instance to suit your needs.
You don’t need to set up a server and install Etherpad in order to use it. Just pick one of publicly available instances that friendly people from everywhere around the world have set up.