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[https://github.com/brunopulis/awesome-a11y Awesome-A11Y ] - pretty comprehensive list of specifications, guides, articles, and talks. | [https://github.com/brunopulis/awesome-a11y Awesome-A11Y ] - pretty comprehensive list of specifications, guides, articles, and talks. | ||
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===Web Accessibility Policies=== | ===Web Accessibility Policies=== | ||
Revision as of 17:39, 15 June 2018
This page is intended to collect resources related to accessibility as a result from the code4lib 2018 breakout discussions.
Contents
Accessibility Resources
From C4L18
Critical Mass Accessibility - Lightning talk given by Kate Deibel at C4L 2018; A call to create a library accessibility community.
Other resources
Awesome-A11Y - pretty comprehensive list of specifications, guides, articles, and talks.
Assessing Third Party Vendors for Accessibility
Before purchasing electronic resources, you should verify if they are accessible and not take the vendor's word (or VPAT).
What questions should you ask to assess the accessibility of a vendor's product?
The University of Washington and Kent State University (KSU) require prospective vendors to complete a questionnaire. The questions on KSU's form can also be viewed as a PDF
You'll also want to conduct manual testing based on those responses.
Web Accessibility Policies
Some public libraries (Sacramento, Chicago) are officially organized and structured as a government entity underneath and adopt policies of their general city.
Others (NYPL) that are self managed and adopt their own web accessibility policies.
Chicago Public Library's Bibliocommons policy and their general website accessibility policies.
Complaints filed against libraries
National Federation of the Blind vs. Sacramento Public Library, 2012.
