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My User is a Machine: Making Information Accessible to Disabled Users by Structuring for Machine Intermediaries.
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Journal of Library Administration . Oct2018, Vol. 58 Issue 7, p728-738. 11p. 2 Color Photographs. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Accessibility to information for disabled human users has increasingly become a legal and ethical concern for public education institutions. The Americans with Disabilities Act guarantees freedom from discrimination for disabled Americans, and recent lawsuits and formal complaints about inaccessible website content have propelled enforcement from an historically reactive stance to one that is proactive. Librarians pride themselves on providing information to all users, and the profession has long understood the need to structure data for other applications. However, many of us fail to use even the simple features built into software packages that can ensure accessible documents and presentations from the point of creation. This failure sets up a paradigm of perpetual effort required to remediate content for accessibility. Effective use of accessibility tools in document creation solves two accessibility problems for two audiences at once: humans and machines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01930826
- Volume :
- 58
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Library Administration
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 134265963
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01930826.2018.1514834