Around three out of every four PDF versions of scholarly papers are largely inaccessible to low-vision and blind readers, highlighting a significant issue in scholarly publishing.
After 2019, there was a very sharp decline across almost all of the criteria that we measured, with rapid-publishing methods attributed to this negative trend.
Things were mostly improving until the introduction of global open-access policies and new production methods, ultimately resulting in a decrease in accessibility.
Accessibility often falls to the wayside, because it disproportionately affects a smaller group of people, or the kind of people who don’t have as much clout.
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