Do You Hear What I See? Assessing Accessibility of Digital Commons and CONTENTdm

Wendy Walker; Teressa Keenan

doi:10.1080/1941126X.2015.1029395

Do You Hear What I See? Assessing Accessibility of Digital Commons and CONTENTdm

Wendy Walker, Teressa Keenan

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Abstract

This article discusses the accessibility of two content management systems, Berkeley Electronic Press's Digital Commons and OCLC's CONTENTdm, widely used in libraries to host institutional repository and digital collections content. Based on observations by a visually impaired student who used the JAWS screen reader to view the design and display of digital objects in both systems, we provide a general overview of the accessibility of each system. We discuss potential suggestions for accessibility-related improvements, and we offer ideas for library administrators of these systems about how to maximize the back-end configurations for accessibility.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	69-87
Number of pages	19
Journal	Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship
Volume	27
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/1941126X.2015.1029395
State	Published - Apr 3 2015

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CONTENTdm
Digital Commons
WCAG 2.0
accessibility
digital collections
screen reader users

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