Development of an electronic book accessibility standard for physically challenged individuals and deduction of a production guideline

•Establishes an electronic book accessibility standard for the reading disabled, based on the EPUB 3.0 accessibility guideline and developed an automatic/semi-automatic examination tool that can test the standard.•Established standard for the reading disabled has been established as the standard document for the TTA of Korea•An accessibility test was conducted on 50 electronic books in the Korean electronic book market to assess which accessibility standards are the most problematic then these issues were presented as a guideline for consideration when authoring electronic books.