Accessibility and LibGuides (Required)
Outcomes and Activities
Welcome to the third module of our teaching retreat. This module is succinct; it pulls out and highlights some of the accessibility best practices for web design referred to in Module 1. Be sure to engage with it before your lightning presentation at T&R.
Action: Focus on Images
This retreat is the beginning of us orienting ourselves and beginning to apply some accessibility best practices. There is a lot we have to learn -- both across the library and institution -- and it won't begin and end here.
As a first, manageable step, consider focusing on your images. Add alt-text to your images or label them as descriptive text. That's a definitive action we all can take. Begin that work on the LibGuide that you targeted.
Watch the embedded video in the module to learn how to add alt-text to existing images in a LibGuide.
Activity: Test a LibGuide's Accessibility
The WAVE tool is one recommended by and for LibGuides for checking accessibility. Read and follow their step-by-step instructions! Any errors will be flagged for your attention, along with other areas that work but might be improved.
(You can access a longer list of web validation tools here, recommended from a CARL pre-conference session).
If users are experiencing difficulty with site elements in a specific browser, you can use this tool to emulate other browser types to check compatibility: Browser Shots: http://browsershots.org
Do you use iFrames? https://webaim.org/techniques/frames/. Good news!