List of Contributions

Hello everyone, I'm getting a bit of pushback to our VPAT request from a Japanese publisher. They want to know if other Japanese companies provide VPATs for their American institutional customers. I have not personally managed to get a VPAT from the handful of Japanese publishers/vendors that I have ...

Hello everyone, I'm trying to brainstorm ways to observe GAAD 2023 at the UT Libraries, but would appreciate any ideas or suggestions that others may have. Thanks! ------------------------------ Leigh Mosley Accessibility Coordinator University of TN Libraries ------------------- ...

Hello! I am wondering how many academic libraries use accessibility exception requests, and if so, what form they take? Separate from an EEAAP, this would be used (VERY rarely) to justify the purchase of an essential resource with serious accessibility barriers and little prospect of improvement, ...

Hi Jennifer, I was dealing with this just last week (with Greek, not Hebrew). This may not be your student's problem, but it turns out I didn't have a Greek voice installed! I was used to VoiceOver, which seems to have all that included out of the box. I found this page very helpful https://www ...

Hi Laura, If you just need to double check your PDFs, the read-aloud function that's built in to Adobe Acrobat does a good job and will read out any alt text on images in your PDF. I'll also second the recommendation for NVDA or the time-limited-but-free version of JAWS. Windows Narrator seems to fail ...