E-book Certification Services

Make accessibility your standard. We check and validate the accessibility of your e-books and workflows with expert audits, quality assurance, and our internationally recognized certification.

LIA label

Certified by LIA®

This internationally recognised label demonstrates to readers that your e-book has been verified by accessibility experts and is fully compliant with global standards.

Accessible e-books: deliver excellence

Our mantra is “Born Accessible“: accessibility shouldn’t be an afterthought, but an integral part of your production process. This efficient approach ensures your content is inclusive from the start, creating higher-quality experiences for every reader. We offer a comprehesive suite of services to help you achieve and showcase this excellence, tailored to your specific needs.

Four steps to achieve excellence in accessibility

Our four-step process will help you develop content and services in line with international accessibility standards and legislation, resulting in the award of independent certification and the LIA label for your publications. Depending on where you are in your accessibility journey, you can choose individual steps from the process or combine them into a comprehensive, end-to-end solution.

1. Accessibility audit of your e-books

If you are at the start of your accessibility journey and you want to assess your situation. Our team of in-house experts will conduct a complete audit of your e-books and your production workflow. This involves:

Initial analysis to assess accessibility level. We will conduct a thorough assessment of your content accessibility level on your source files (InDesign) and output files (EPUB, PDF, HTML, Latex).
Detailed gap analysis report to support remediation. At the end of this comprehensive analysis phase, we will produce a complete and accurate report on source files and output files that lists the checks performed, identifies accessibility issues, and outlines the necessary corrections and improvements.

The report will support you in defining the roadmap and the steps needed to implement either a Born Accessible production workflow for the new titles or a remediation program for your catalogue.

2. Quality assurance of your e-book catalogue

If you have already started to produce accessible e-books and you want to be sure they are compliant. Once your team is equipped to produce accessible publications, ongoing quality check is essential.

To QA your process we will:

Perform accessibility checks on a selected set of sample files (EPUB, PDF, HTML files). These checks help you understand if accessibility is applied consistently on your catalogue (either internally or by your suppliers)
Provide detailed gap analysis reports for each e-book aimed at supporting remediation activities, updating internal guidelines, and workflows

This service is already used by international publishers across Italy, Portugal, Canada, Denmark, and the Netherlands. This is a continuous, scalable way to embed accessibility across your production workflows.

3a. Title by title certification of your e-books

If you are confident your publications meet the requirements of accessibility standards and you are looking for the trusted certification label from Fondazione LIA and reliable metadata.

Showcase the accessibility of your e-books with Fondazione LIA’s certification service for individual e-books. Certification signals to users with print impairment that the publication is accessible and fully usable, setting you apart from competitors in your field.

Fondazione LIA’s rigorous certification process includes:

An assessment of your e-books. Alongside with automated technology, our team of experts provides personalized feedback and solutions for 100% identifiable errors
Certification for each e-book that meets the accessibility requirements
The “Certified by LIA”^® label for each of your accessible e-books
The provision of accessibility of rich and reliable metadata in line with international standards

Fondazione LIA can manage these activities for all your digital publications.

3b. Process certification of your accessible e-book production workflow

If you are confident your publications meet the requirements of accessibility standards and you are looking for a trusted certification by Fondazione LIA on your process to ensure scalable, repeatable, and compliant production models.

Alongside individual e-book title-by-title certification, Fondazione LIA can certify how you produce accessible content – your internal workflows, procedures, tools, and checks.

Using an agile approach, we guide you through a structured process to verify that:

Your procedures are correct, documented, and complete
Your workflows and quality checks ensure compliance with international standards
Your training is suited to upskilling your team
Your tools support accessible production and verification

4. Communicate your accessibility efforts: accessibility metadata display consultancy

Showcase your effort to create accessible content to users with print impairment is crucial to inform that your digital content is in line with international standards. This will set you apart from competitors in your field.

We help you display metadata according to the Accessibility Metadata Display Guide for Digital Publications 2.0.
We support distributors and online stores and displaying metadata within their platforms
Fondazione LIA’s own public catalogue, with over 40,000 born accessible titles, is among the first to implement this standard
To make metadata even more user-friendly, Fondazione LIA has also introduced a new graphic layout, using its own icons to visually represent different categories of accessibility features at a glance

What is an accessible e-book?

Whether you’re looking to certify a single e-book, improve your entire production workflow, or make your accessibility efforts visible to end users, we are here to support you.

Let’s talk about how we can support your accessibility strategy.