Pressbooks product updates: march 2026. Translation updates: new plugin. What's happening? Pressbooks migrated its product translation work to Crowdin, a more centralized platform for managing product translations. What does this mean? Components that were previously not open to translation (including the LTI and shared network plugins) can now be included in translation workflows. Pressbooks is better set up to involve translators and scale language support (and will be rolling out French and Spanish translations for additional parts of the product). Pressbooks has recently completed other translation work including translating the Pressbooks Directory interface into French and Spanish, and begun work on translating its User Guide into French. Stay tuned for an expected release date. Content toolkit + accessibility updates. Over the last few weeks Pressbooks has added several autofixes to its Accessibility Authoring Tool, allowing authors to fix flagged issues directly from the visual editor tooltip. These auto fixes include: * Remove empty headings or links * Stop links from opening in new tab/window * Apply correct markup for lists that aren't correctly formatted * Help users apply correct heading levels * Quickly fix inadequate or missing alt text * Quickly fix inadequate link text More accessibility updates. * Pressbooks has added missing aria labels to network catalog pages * Pressbooks has fixed accessibility heading levels in the footnotes * Pressbooks has added a visual and screen reader indication of when a link opens on a new page Theme change. Pressbooks has changed the name of its Andreessen theme to bell hooks (and have made the theme available to open source users as well!) Why this is important. Its themes are named after people whose contributions Pressbooks admire, and Pressbooks want to ensure these choices reflect its values as an organization. What this means for you. If you have a book using the Andreessen theme you do not need to take any action, just note that the name has changed Custom Fonts. Network Managers can now upload and use custom licensed fonts in their Pressbooks network. Fonts are stored in the network uploads folder and are available across all books and themes on the network. How to use. * Network Managers: Upload custom font files via the new admin page at Settings > Custom Fonts * Authors: Select desired Font Family via 'Shapeshifter' theme options or reference them by name in custom CSS. Note: custom font files are NOT copied when books are cloned to other networks

In its previous blog post, Pressbooks introduced the VPAT - a Voluntary Product Accessibility Template that outlines how digital tools and platforms align with accessibility standards like WCAG 2.1, Section 508, and EN 301 549.