Accessibility on this Site

The University of Chicago Press website is designed to conform to the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, level AA.

For details on conformance to specific WCAG criteria, please view the Accessibility Conformance Reports (VPAT) for each site:

• Books Division
• Journals
• Chicago Manual of Style
• CSE Manual
• Chicago Distribution Center

Feedback on Accessibility

We welcome feedback and questions about our site accessibility and related initiatives. For the main Press site, please email us at marketing@press.uchicago.edu. For the Journals Division, please email the Journals Technical Support team at journalsupport@press.uchicago.edu.

We’ll try to respond to any queries within three business days.

Our Accessibility Initiatives

The University of Chicago Press is committed to continually improving the accessibility standards of our books and journals.

The Journals Division collaborates with Benetech's Bookshare initiative to provide accessible journal issues as ebooks for people with reading barriers. Read more about our Bookshare partnership.

The Books Division also cooperates with Benetech’s Bookshare program and the Royal National Institute for the Blind in the UK (RNIB) to supply book files for their members. In addition, we assist accessibility offices at institutions of higher learning by providing access to our book files to students who have print disabilities. If you need an accessible electronic version of one of our books, go here to learn more about requesting files.

The University of Chicago provides more information about accessibility at Access UChicago Now.

Ebooks

The University of Chicago Press aims for our ebooks to meet current standards and guidelines set forth by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the European Accessibility Act (EAA). Our goal is to deliver accessible ebooks in EPUB format that meet or exceed the guidelines set out in the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1, Level AA conformance and EPUB Accessibility 1.1.

The majority of EPUB ebooks that carry publication dates later than July 1, 2026, provide these accessible features:

• Text alternatives for images and other nontext content
• Semantically marked-up structure for logical reading order and navigation
• Careful consideration when using color in text in order to ensure readability
• Creation and dissemination of accessibility metadata

We are testing MathML support in retail e-readers and will soon be able to support language tagging in our document workflow for newly published EPUB ebooks. 

Ebooks published prior to July 1, 2026, do not contain alternative text, Math ML, or language tagging. We are assessing our catalog of ebooks and will prioritize remediation of:

• Ebooks that receive remediation requests. Instructions for institutions that need to make requests on behalf of students are at this link, while individuals can make requests via email to marketing@press.uchicago.edu
• Existing EPUB ebooks
• Ebooks that are regularly used in courses
• Newly publishing EPUB ebooks of previously published print books

Regretfully, our PDF ebooks may not be compliant with current accessibility standards. Anyone requiring accessibility features in an ebook should acquire the EPUB format instead of the PDF format.