Universal Accessibility Interest Group

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Charge: Offers librarians, support staff, students, and other advocates networking and collaboration opportunities, information sharing and programming to promote accessibility in academic libraries, including web accessibility, assistive technology, reference and instruction for users with disabilities and captioning processes.
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  • 1.  Virtual Meeting Minutes - ACRL Universal Accessibility Interest Group (UAIG)

    Posted Jul 05, 2015 02:30 PM
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    Attached please find minutes from the ACRL Universal Accessibility Interest Group (UAIG)'s virtual meeting in mid-June. 


    If you could not attend and are interested, the meeting was recorded:


    To access the recorded meeting, please call (866) 612-3357.


    The Conference ID is 3862346, and the Participant Passcode is 21632955.


    If you have questions, please let me know.


    Best-John


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    John Siegel, MLS | Outgoing Convener, ACRL Universal Accessibility Interest Group

    Associate Professor-Student Success Librarian
    University of Arkansas at Little Rock | Ottenheimer Library | Collections & Archives | 
    501.682.3536 | jxsiegel@ualr.edu | ualr.edu/library

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  • 2.  RE: Virtual Meeting Minutes - ACRL Universal Accessibility Interest Group (UAIG)

    Posted Feb 19, 2016 02:05 PM

    Hello,

    I am a librarian at Washington State University Vancouver and was very happy to find this group! Accessibility is a current focus for me and I was hoping for some people to talk to about it.

    I am currently working on a usability test of three library databases for folks who use screen readers. I am wondering if any of you have done any testing of the accessibility of databases. If not what has your experience been, yourself, or in helping students? What research/data collection have you done, if not usability testing?

    I'm hoping to find some other folks who have done or are planning to do research on database accessibility because I hope that together we might be able to advocate for some improvements. I know it is a David and Goliath type of venture but right now I want to give it a try.

    Sue Phelps

    WSU Vancouver

    asphelps@wsu.edu