Accessibility Case Studies for Scholarly Communication Librarians and Practitioners

Contents

1. Front Matter

   1. Accessibility Statement
   2. Acknowledgements and a Note to Readers

2. I. Introduction

   1. Part 1: Introduction
   2. Definitions
   3. American Legal and Historical Context
   4. Benefits of Web Accessibility
   5. Assistive Technologies
   6. Accessibility in Scholarly Communication
   7. Reflection Questions
   8. Further Reading

3. II. Thinking from the User's Perspective

   1. Part 2: Thinking from the User's Perspective
   2. Case Study 2.1: Milne Open Textbooks
   3. Case Study 2.2: University of Cape Town Libraries
   4. Reflection Questions
   5. Further Reading

4. III. Designing for Accessibility

   1. Part 3: Designing for Accessibility
   2. Case Study 3.1: Helen Keller Digital Archive
   3. Case Study 3.2: HathiTrust
   4. Case Study 3.3: Critical Design Lab and Nashville Feminist Collective
   5. Reflection Questions
   6. Further Reading

5. IV. Working with Authors

   1. Part 4: Working with Authors
   2. Case Study 4.1: Accessible Canada
   3. Case Study 4.2: University of California’s Accessibility Guides
   4. Case Study 4.3: FLOE (Flexible Learning for Open Education) Project
   5. Case Study 4.4: ChromeLens
   6. Case Study 4.5: Teach Access
   7. Reflection Questions
   8. Further Reading

6. V. Accessibility Policies and Statements

   1. Part 5: Accessibility Policies and Statements
   2. Case Study 5.1: PDXOpen
   3. Case Study 5.2: Sydney University Press
   4. Case Study 5.3: eCommons, Cornell University Library
   5. Case Study 5.4: IUScholarWorks
   6. Case Study 5.5: Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy
   7. Case Study 5.6: ETD Templates
   8. Case Study 5.7: Conference Presentation Templates
   9. Reflection Questions and Activities
   10. Further Reading

7. VI. Accessibility Audits

   1. Part 6: Accessibility Audits
   2. Case Study 6.1: University of Texas at Arlington—An Open Textbook Audit
   3. Case Study 6.2: University of Nevada at Reno—An Open Textbook Audit
   4. Case Study 6.3: IUScholarWorks—An Institutional Repository Audit
   5. Case Study 6.4: Duke University—An Institutional Repository Audit
   6. Case Study 6.5: Rebus Foundation—Auditing in Community
   7. Case Study 6.6: California Digital Library—Considerations for User Testing
   8. Case Study 6.7: University of North Carolina (UNC) Libraries—Considerations for User Testing
   9. Reflection Questions and Exercises
   10. Tools and Resources
   11. Further Reading

8. VII. Workflows

   1. Part 7: Accessibility Workflows
   2. Case Study 7.1: University of Houston—An Author Workflow
   3. Case Study 7.2: Hemingway App—An Author Workflow
   4. Case Study 7.3: University of British Columbia—An Editor Workflow
   5. Case Study 7.4: Portland State University— An OER Publisher Workflow
   6. Case Study 7.5: Mavs Open Press—An OER Publisher Workflow
   7. Case Study 7.6: Virginia Tech Publishing—An OER Publisher Workflow
   8. Case Study 7.7: Fulcrum—An OA Publisher Workflow
   9. Case Study 7.8: University of Sydney Press—A Monograph Publisher Workflow
   10. Case Study 7.9: Cornell University—An Accessibility Metadata Workflow
   11. Case Study 7.10: University of Georgia Law Library—An Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Workflow
   12. Case Study 7.11: Accessibility Request Workflows
   13. Reflection Questions and Exercises
   14. Further Reading

9. VIII. Staffing

   1. Part 8: Staffing
   2. Case Study 8.1: University of Texas, Arlington
   3. Case Study 8.2: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
   4. Case Study 8.3: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
   5. Reflection Questions and Exercises
   6. Further Reading

10. IX. Media Accessibility

    1. Part 9: Media Accessibility
    2. Case Study 9.1: University of Washington—A Captioning Workflow
    3. Case Study 9.2: University of Texas, Austin, and Texas A&M International University—Captioning Workflows
    4. Case Study 9.3: Oral History Metadata Synchronizer—A Transcript Solution
    5. Case Study 9.4: UniDescription: A Deeper Dive into Audio Description
    6. Case Study 9.5: Soundwriting: A Deeper Dive into Captions
    7. Case Study 9.6: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill—Conscious Editing Guidelines for Visual Description
    8. Case Study 9.7: Describe It!—A Crowdsourced Alt Text Description Project
    9. Reflection Questions and Exercises
    10. Tools and Resources
    11. Further Reading

11. X. Accessibility for Technical Notation and Data Visualization

    1. Part 10: Accessibility for Technical Notation and Data Visualization
    2. Case Study 10.1: Florida State University—An OER Publishing Workflow
    3. Case Study 10.2: Virginia Tech—OER Publishing Workflows
    4. Case Study 10.3: Progressive Access—Good Practices for STEM Authoring
    5. Case Study 10.4: Floe Project—Sonification
    6. Case Study 10.5: We Count—Open Data and Equity
    7. Reflection Questions and Exercises
    8. Resources and Tools
    9. Further Reading

12. XI. Advocating for Accessibility

    1. Part 11: Advocating for Accessibility
    2. Case Study 11.1: Public Knowledge Project Accessibility Interest Group
    3. Case Study 11.2: Penn State University and OCLC
    4. Case Study 11.3: University of Washington and Pressbooks
    5. Case Study 11.4: Faculty as Advocates
    6. Case Study 11.5: Open Publishing Tools
    7. Reflection Questions
    8. Further Reading

13. Back Matter

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