NISO Seeks Members for the Working Group to Develop Standard Metadata for Remediation of Content for Accessibility

Voting members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have approved the formation of a Working Group to refine and extend the metadata model developed in the Federating Repositories of Accessible Material for Education (FRAME) project, which will enable it to meet broader accessibility needs. NISO is currently seeking members from across the information community to join the resulting Accessibility Remediation Metadata (ARM) Working Group.

NISO will further develop and refine FRAME's work with Accessibility Remediation Metadata (ARM) for remediated texts. The ARM model will ensure that the metadata is machine processable, provide written documentation, and develop a metadata schema. This work will expand the FRAME model to serve a wider range of needs, including those of publishers as well as libraries and DSOs, and make remediated texts even more discoverable.

To volunteer to join the ARM Working Group, please contact nisohq@niso.org.