Accessibility Coffee Talk: Policy Meets Practice

Duration: 1 hr 1 min
Publication Date: October 2025

About the session

What do the Nelson Memo, US and EU legislation, and broader readership have in common? Accessibility. This topic embodies the theme of the conference on incentives and outcomes, so grab some coffee and bring your questions and curiosity to this session to learn how accessibility works in practice for users of assistive technologies, what the current and forthcoming US and EU requirements are, and how accessibility of content benefits all of us.

Collection

New Directions 2025

Speaker

Senior Product Manager, Content Accessibility, Elsevier, B.V.

Simon Holt is Senior Product Manager for Content Accessibility at Elsevier, where he leads work making books, journals, video and audio accessible to people with disabilities. As a sight impaired person himself, accessibility is important to him personally as well as professionally. He has worked in scholarly publishing for over 15 years, working with authors and editors, and is involved in several industry initiatives including serving as a Director for the Society of Scholarly Publishing, a member of an Advisory Board for the Royal National Institute for Blind People and as a Trustee for the sight-loss charity MyVision Oxfordshire. He lives in Oxford, UK.