Design for Access-Making Online Content Accessible

Wednesday, Sep 07, 2022 | 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
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About This Event

 

Librarian and technologist Jessamyn West will discuss the social model of disability and universal access with a focus on website accessibility. She will offer clear resources and tips for helping libraries make their “born digital” content as accessible as possible without breaking the bank.

Topics/Agenda:
- why accessibility is important and explaining universal access
- explaining social model of disability
- more discussion about specific areas of access
- some tools that are helpful (and a few to avoid)
- how universal access is essential, and encouragement that it’s possible

Desired Outcomes:

Attendees will have an understanding of what goes in to making digital content accessible to the widest audiences--people with visual, auditory, motor skills, and congnitive disabilities—and what resources can help them create accessible content. They will learn about the social model of disability.

Location(s)

Zoom

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Presenter
Jessamyn West

Jessamyn West is a library technologist from Randolph Vermont. She is a nationally known speaker, writer, and educator on the issues facing today's libraries. Her blog focusing on libraries and politics, Librarian.net, is one of the earliest and longest running librarian websites. She writes a column for Computers in Libraries magazine and is the author of the book Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide. She has taught "Tools for Community Advocacy" for the University of Hawaii's Library School and was on the Advisory Board to the Wikimedia Foundation. As a librarian without a library, for the past fifteen years she has spent most of her time working with her local community as a hands-on technology educator.