Enabling student success: Best practices for evaluating and providing accessible library resources

 

Session Description:
Awareness of accessibility issues has drastically increased as enrollment of and support for students with disabilities has grown. A project team in a Midwestern library consortium was formed and charged with evaluating the accessibility of the consortium’s database subscriptions. This panel will present our process of creating an evaluation template based on WCAG 2.0 standards, evaluation procedures, our revisions of the template, and best practices for customizing it for their own evaluations. The panel will also include a discussion of accessibility at one institution in the consortium and the role its library has played in campus accessibility efforts.

 

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