31 Use Accessibility Features Provided By Pressbooks

Pressbooks’ administrative interface includes some accessibility features that may help you use Pressbooks more effectively.

Site Map

Pressbooks includes an alternative site map, which is linked to from the footer visible in the user dashboard to all logged in users. The site map offers users an alternative means of navigating the back end of Pressbooks, and will include links to all the pages that you can access from the sidebar menu and top menu.

Site Map link in the footer of the Pressbooks admin interface

Pressbooks a11y Color Scheme

If you would prefer an administrative interface with higher color contrast and underlined links, you can enable the Pressbooks a11y color scheme for your account:

  1. Go to Users > Your Profile from the left sidebar menu, or click on your name in the top right corner of your screen
  2. On the Profile page, find the Admin Color Scheme setting and select Pressbooks a11y 
  3. Click Update Profile at the bottom of the screen

This setting only affects the user interface for you. Others authors in your book will still be able to select their own preferred color scheme.

The Pressbooks a11y admin color scheme

Help Translate Pressbooks

We want to make the Pressbooks platform available in as many languages as possible. We use Transifex, a localization software platform, to help us produce and maintain crowd-sourced translations for the Pressbooks platform in many languages. This service allows anyone to contribute to the completion of a language project translation for Pressbooks by translating as many words or phrases as they wish. We update translations for all languages which have at least 25% coverage each time we release a new version of Pressbooks.

To contribute to any of the translation projects for Pressbooks, please visit Pressbooks’ Transifex page.

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