Upcoming Free Trial: Pressbooks Content Toolkit

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Hello @EDU_Managers!

We know that upcoming accessibility milestones are top of mind across the Pressbooks community. To support the important remediation and quality improvement work many of you are doing, we’re making the full Pressbooks Content Toolkit available to all Enterprise Networks for a limited free trial.

From February 10th through February 26th, your network will have free access to a set of time-saving tools designed to help authors, editors, and administrators identify and address accessibility issues and broken links across Pressbooks content.

What’s in the Content Toolkit

The Content Toolkit brings together several tools that help teams maintain accessible, high-quality publications:

Accessibility Assist (powered by Editoria11y)

  • Author Tool: Flags common accessibility issues in real time as content is created or edited. Generates and updates an Accessibility Report as individual pages are viewed or edited.

  • Scanner Tool: Updates the Accessibility Report for all content in a book with one click

Link Checker

  • Generates a report listing all broken or unreachable links in Pressbooks content

Network Book Scanner

  • Allows network and institutional managers to view recent accessibility and link checker results for all books and request bulk scans of multiple books from a single, easy-to-use interface

Together, these tools help ease the burden on instructors, librarians, OER leads, and publishing teams as accessibility requirements evolve. Learn more about the Content toolkit in our release notes.

How the free trial works

  • The Content Toolkit will be automatically activated for your network on February 10th

  • The free trial will end on February 26th, unless you choose to continue using the tools (reach out to your account manager to let them know)

  • During the free trial, there will be a daily combined limit of 20 scans per network (including accessibility and link scans)

  • During the trial, users will see in-product guidance and links to short how-to resources

If you do not want the Content Toolkit enabled for your network, please let us know before February 10th. You can contact your account manager, premium support, or reply to this message.

Learn more: Accessibility webinar
To help teams get the most out of these tools, we’re also hosting an upcoming webinar focused on accessibility compliance and practical workflows in Pressbooks.

We’d love for you to join us or share this with colleagues at your institution:
Designing for Accessibility: Publishing Compliant Content in Pressbooks

If you have questions, please reply here or contact your account manager or premium support. We’re excited to give everyone the opportunity to explore these tools and see how they can support your accessibility and content sustainability efforts.

Best,
Amanda Coolidge
VP, Strategic Engagement and Growth

2026 Accessibility Requirements: Discussion and Resource Sharing
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Thanks for the announcement, Amanda! We are very excited about the Content Toolkit and this trial. :star_struck: :tada:

We also sent out a message to our TAMUS network users today, announcing this trial. I will share it below in case it is helpful.

Howdy Pressbooks Authors/Administrators,

We are excited to share that the Pressbooks Content Toolkit trial is now activated on our TAMUS Open Digital Publishing platform.

Some of you may have previously used the Accessibility Authoring tool (powered by Editoria11y). In the current Content Toolkit, it is now called the Accessibility Assist Author Tool and is bundled with additional tools, including the Accessibility Assist Scanner, Accessibility Report, Link Checker, and Search & Replace. Together, these tools make it easier to scan your content, identify and fix issues, and enhance the overall accessibility, especially as we prepare for the Title II deadline in April 2026.

The trial starts today and runs through February 26. Whether you are actively developing new content or want to check your existing books, we encourage you to give the toolkit a try!

You can check out tutorials and other resources here:
Use Accessibility Assist and Scanner Tools

We would also love to hear your thoughts:
Feedback on the Pressbooks Content Toolkit

Thank y’all, and please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or need any support.

Best,
Seyed

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This is great, @shahrokni, thanks for sharing!

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Happy to hear that! You’re most welocme! :slight_smile: