# accessibilitySummary - Schema.org Property

> Source: https://schema.org/accessibilitySummary
> Extracted: 2026-02-16T15:05:37.900Z

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A human-readable summary of specific accessibility features or deficiencies, consistent with the other accessibility metadata but expressing subtleties such as "short descriptions are present but long descriptions will be needed for non-visual users" or "short descriptions are present and no long descriptions are needed".

### Values expected to be one of these types

`-   [Text](https://schema.org/Text "Text")`

#### Source

[https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1100](https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1100)

  

### Examples

Example notes or example HTML without markup.

A graphic novel book example.

See also https://github.com/daisy/epub-revision-a11y/wiki/ePub-3.1-Accessibility--Proposal-To-Schema.org

Example encoded as [JSON-LD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON-LD) in a HTML script tag.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org/",
  "@type": "Book",
  "name": "Some graphic novel",
  "accessMode": \["textual", "visual"\],
  "accessModeSufficient": \[
    {
      "@type": "ItemList",
      "itemListElement": \["textual", "visual"\],
      "description": "Text and images"
    },
    {
      "@type": "ItemList",
      "itemListElement": \["textual"\],
      "description": "Text with textual alternatives and descriptions for images"
    }
  \],
  "accessibilitySummary": "Visual elements are not described."
}
</script>

Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.

Example notes or example HTML without markup.

A second example.

See also https://github.com/daisy/epub-revision-a11y/wiki/ePub-3.1-Accessibility--Proposal-To-Schema.org

Example encoded as [JSON-LD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON-LD) in a HTML script tag.

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org/",
  "@type": "Movie",
  "accessMode": \["auditory", "visual"\],
  "accessibilityFeature": \["audioDescription", "captions"\],
  "accessModeSufficient": \[
    {
      "@type": "ItemList",
      "itemListElement": \["textual", "visual"\],
      "description": "Closed captioning"
    },
    {
      "@type": "ItemList",
      "itemListElement": \["auditory"\],
      "description": "Audio description"
    }
  \],
  "accessibilitySummary": "Captions provided in English; short scenes in French have English subtitles instead."
}

Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.

Example notes or example HTML without markup.

A third example.

See also https://github.com/daisy/epub-revision-a11y/wiki/ePub-3.1-Accessibility--Proposal-To-Schema.org

Example encoded as [JSON-LD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON-LD) in a HTML script tag.

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org/",
  "@type": "Book",
  "name": "Alice in Wonderland",
  "accessMode": \["auditory", "textual", "visual"\],
  "accessibilityFeature": \["alternativeText", "synchronizedAudioText"\],
  "accessModeSufficient": \[
    {
      "@type": "ItemList",
      "itemListElement": \["textual"\],
      "description": "See the text"
    },
    {
      "@type": "ItemList",
      "itemListElement": \["textual", "visual"\],
      "description": "See the text and images"
    },
    {
      "@type": "ItemList",
      "itemListElement": \["auditory"\],
      "description": "Hear the text and image descriptions"
    },
    {
      "@type": "ItemList",
      "itemListElement": \["auditory", "visual"\],
      "description": "Hear the text and see the images"
    },
    {
      "@type": "ItemList",
      "itemListElement": \["auditory", "visual", "textual"\],
      "description": "Hear the text and see the text and images"
    }
  \],
  "accessibilitySummary": "Short descriptions are provided; long descriptions of the images are not needed for most readers."
}

Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.