Date & Time
- October 9th 15:00 UTC/GMT - 11:00 EDT
Zoom meeting:
We will be using the DSpace Zoom Meeting Room for our meeting.
Meeting location: https://duraspace.zoom.us/my/dspace
Enter Meeting ID: 502 527 3040 , followed by #
Zoom information: DSpace Meeting Room
Meeting will be facilitated by Terry Brady
Agenda:
Accessibility in DSpace
- Accessibility Requirements for DSpace
- How institutions have approached accessibility in their DSpace instances
- Georgetown University Library - Terrence W Brady
- University of Arizona Library - Kimberly Chapman
- Evaluation of DSpace 7 Accessibility Notes
- Discuss potential DSpace Accessibility Working Group
Other Updates
- Update on the new DSpace Documentation and Training Working Group
Preparing for the call
If you can join the call, or are willing to comment on the topics submitted via the meeting page, please add your name, institution, and repository URL to the Call Attendees section below.
Meeting notes
Steve Fernie at Georgetown has worked on accessibility for their websites. He shared some challenges:
- No alt-text on thumbnails.
- Lack of titles on iframes for embedded video.
- Site-improve tool: Automated testing for accessibility. Repository is so large that the tool is having problems checking it all. Working on ways to do this in smaller batches.
Terry: They hope at least initially to use the item's title as Alt-text for the thumbnail. Working on better ways to include context information instead of just title. (dc.description.alt) information is used instead of title when it's present.
Call Attendees
- Terrence W Brady (Georgetown University Library)
- Keith Gilbertson (University Libraries, Virginia Tech)
- Kimberly Chapman (University of Arizona Libraries)
- Marianne Reed (University of Kansas Libraries)
- Claudio Cortese (4Science)
- Suzanne Chase (Georgetown University Library)
- Anne Lawrence (University Libraries, Virginia Tech)
- Pauline Ward University of Edinburgh
