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Date & Time

  • October 9th 15:00 UTC/GMT - 11:00 EDT

Zoom meeting:

We will be using the DSpace Zoom Meeting Room for our meeting.

Meeting location: https://duraspace.zoom.us/my/dspace  

Enter Meeting ID: 502 527 3040 , followed by #

Zoom information: DSpace Meeting Room


Meeting will be facilitated by Terry Brady

Agenda:

Accessibility in DSpace

Other Updates

  • Update on the new DSpace Documentation and Training Working Group

Preparing for the call

If you can join the call, or are willing to comment on the topics submitted via the meeting page, please add your name, institution, and repository URL to the Call Attendees section below.  

Meeting notes

Steve Fernie at Georgetown has worked on accessibility for their websites.  He shared some challenges:  

  • No alt-text on thumbnails. 
  • Lack of titles on iframes for embedded video.
  • Site-improve tool:  Automated testing for accessibility.  Repository is so large that the tool is having problems checking it all.  Working on ways to do this in smaller batches.
  • WCAG

Georgetown at least initially will use the item's title as Alt-text for the thumbnail.  Working on better ways to include context information instead of just title.  Customized theme uses dc.description.alt information instead of title when it's present in the record.  Information in this field can be added when the item is submitted.

Anne:  Hope that DSpace 7 will include this functionality (Marianne agreed).  DSpace 7 working group is hoping for guidance on accessibility needs of repositories. 

University of Arizona discussing how to reduce "noise" in the user experience.  Consider whether some accessibility choices make it harder to access the items.  Will be consulting with their accessibility resource center on campus.   Thinks that we should look at tools that make this easier.  Also, many users come directly to the repository from Google Scholar, so how does that factor in to this?

Georgetown:  Some of this depends on the screen reader that people are using and what their goals are in accessing the content.   Thumbnails can encourage someone to open an item, but may not be needed for a person with a disability.   Often a difference between what WCAG reports and what each individual user wants out of the site.



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