[Web4lib] Libraries with accessible Web pages

[steven perkins]

Stacey:

Last spring I did a survey of all the US law library front pages. 
Four of 191 pages could pass the HTML/XHTML validator at
http://validator.w3.org/  All of those pages mentioned accessibility
standards.

I also did the same survey on the ACRL library front pages.  Around
20% of the 127 pages could pass the validator.  Several had text
versions of their web pages and a few actually mentioned either WAI or
Section 508.

Be sure to have your pages tested by patrons using accessible
technologies.  Also remember that you can have a standard compliant
page that is still inaccessible and vice-versa.

US states have web page accessibility standards and a reference is located here:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/Policy/USA-States.html

US federal regulations are at this website:
http://www.section508.gov/

I have my presentation at CALI on Accessibility and Law Library
Webpages is at this address:

http://stevencperkins.com/presentations/CALI2005.ppt

Regards,

Steven C. Perkins
Coordinator of Reference Services
U of Houston MD Anderson Library


On 2/20/06, Stacey Kimmel <sek2 at lehigh.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm hoping there are folks on the list who can share some information
> about their institution's approach to making pages Web-accessible,
> including:
> -- examples of library and/or university Web pages that meet Web
> accessibility guidelines (e.g., W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative).
> -- strategies for implementing accessible pages.
> -- technical approaches, templates, stylesheets, static versus dynamic
> pages, alternate views of pages, etc.
> -- data/stats on time invested in evaluating, retrofitting, redesigning
> pages.
>
> Stacey Kimmel-Smith
> Library and Technology Services
> Lehigh University
>
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