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.  [EXTERNAL] RE: Universal Accessibility Interest Group : Experience with citation management tools and screen readers?

    Posted Dec 22, 2022 02:26 PM

    A belated but huge thank you to Debralee and Adina for replying to my inquiry in November about helping a blind student use Zotero or another citation management tool. Debralee, the guide to Zotero's accessibility issues that you helped create was a spectacularly useful resource. I met with the student a few times, and I was able to help her get set up in Zotero, create and navigate folders, save items, and generate simple bibliographies from folders. There are abundant accessibility problems in Zotero, to be sure, and thus related frustrations, but she's very happy to have streamlined her practices for saving references and generating bibliographies.

     

    My sincere thanks!

    Jill

     



  • 2.  RE: [EXTERNAL] Universal Accessibility Interest Group : Experience with citation management tools and screen readers?

    Posted Dec 23, 2022 08:39 AM
    Jill,
    That's great news! Thank you for reporting back!

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    Anaya Jones She/Her/Hers
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    Accessibility & Online Learning Librarian
    Northeastern University
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  • 3.  RE: [EXTERNAL] Universal Accessibility Interest Group : Experience with citation management tools and screen readers?

    Posted Jan 07, 2023 08:36 AM
    Yes, thank you Jill!  Maybe your student could market her skills to some librarians if she wanted....

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    Adina Mulliken
    Social Work Subject Specialist & Assistant Professor
    Hunter College, CUNY
    New York, NY
    She/Her/Hers
    am2621@hunter.cuny.edu
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