1. Software Development and Technologies for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion
A proposal for the inclusion of accessibility criteria in the publishing workflow of images in biomedical academic articles 
Bruno Splendiani & Mireia Ribera
Universitat de Barcelona
Adaptabit group

2. Visual content is important
Figure count
Page count
Figures per page 38 97
0.4
Average count from a previous analysis of biomedical articles (1)
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3. Process oriented accessibility
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4. Born digital must be born accessible
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5. Behaviour change wheel (BCW)
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6. BCW applied to submission workflow
Component
Intervention function
Action
Actors
Capability
Education
Inform authors about readers with disabilities. Offer simulations of perceived images
Publisher
Training
Provide guidelines, examples and evaluation tools
Opportunity
Enablement
Improve image editing tools
Software developers
Restriction
Introduce validations
Environmental restructuring
Introduce accessibility criteria
Motivation
Persuasion
Inform about disabilities prevalence
Inform about legal requirements
Incentivisation
Inform about findability benefits
Rewards to accessible images
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7. Image text alternatives decision tree
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8. Checklist: all types of figures
Is the image clearly identified? Identify it.
Does the figure use labels? Explain labels, including symbols, letters, arrows and numbers.
Does the figure use abbreviations? Explain abbreviations and acronyms.
Does the figure convey information by colors? Explain the meaning conveyed by colors.
Has any modification/ adjustment/ enhancement been applied to the figure? Explain it
Does the figure refer to an external source? Specify it
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9. Checklist: statistical graphics
Does the image include variables? Describe the variables.
Does the figure show Cartesian coordinates? Describe the units of measurement
Does the image provide a statistical analysis?
include statistical significance
type of analysis
information about the sample
standard deviation, etc.
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10. Checklist: Medicine and Biology
Does the figure highlight areas of interest? Explain them
Has a magnification been applied to the figure? Specify the scale
Has the figure been acquired by a specific modality? Specify it
Is the clinical background included? Describe it
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Checklist: Medicine
Has a specific cut type been applied to the figure? Specify it.
Has any reconstruction been applied to the figure? Specify it.
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Informal validation
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References
Splendiani B, Ribera M.   Accessibility of Graphics in STEM Research Articles: Analysis and Proposals for Improvement. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST). 
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Image credits
Baby with computer
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15. Thank you Questions? Try the checklist with your own images
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