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FWD: Web Accessibility Blog Highlights Tools for Evaluating Digital Resources

  • 1.  FWD: Web Accessibility Blog Highlights Tools for Evaluating Digital Resources

    Posted Jul 31, 2015 07:48 AM

    Happy Friday, everyone!


    I wanted to forward along a message from the Association of Research Libraries' accessibility Google Group. The blog post highlights the VPAT repository and other accessibility resources..

     

    If you are interested in joining this Google Group, please visit https://groups.google.com/a/arl.org/d/forum/accessibility-community

     

    Have a good weekend!

     

    Best,

    John



    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    From: Prue Adler <prue@arl.org>
    Date: Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 2:27 PM
    Subject: [accessibility-community] Web Accessibility Blog Highlights Tools for Evaluating Digital Resources
    To: accessibility-community@arl.org
    Cc: Prudence S Adler <prue@arl.org>




    Good afternoon!

     

    ARL visiting program officer Katya Pereyaslavska writes about evalutaing the accessibility of digital resources in a new Web Accessibility in Research Libraries blog post, “The Value of Comparing Oranges to Oranges.” In her post, Pereyaslavska highlights a few tools that can help libraries in their e-resource procurement decisions: the vendor-generated Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT), the VPAT Repository, and the forthcoming Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) vendor template. Read more about evaluating the accessibility of digital resources in “The Value of Comparing Oranges to Oranges.”
     

    Best. - Prue




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