<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Vivienne, The Director of Edmonds CC's Services for Students with Disabilities is leading an E-Content Accessibility Task Force for our campus, the library is represented on this task force. We have just begun to meet and are working on a variety of areas, including auditing the college's most heavily used webpages. I can send you links to the tools we are using for that audit if you are interested. <br><br></div></div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">For our review we are using<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> the <b>World Wide Web Consortium</b> (</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">W3C - A</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">n international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop </span><a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,110,198);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Web standards</span></a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> To read more go to </span><a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://www.w3.org/Consortium/</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">) where our IT representative showed the Task Force members the </span><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/intro.html#introduction-fourprincs-head" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">principles of accessibility </span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">.  She used these principles to explain the framework for creating the accessibility audit.</span><br></span></font><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>Here are some resources that have been shared with the Task Force in case they may be of help to you or others:<br></span></font><ul><li><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Link to <b>WA </b><span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);line-height:23.8636px"><b>State Guidelines – Accessibility to Information Technology for Individuals with Disabilities</b> from the office of the CIO of WA </span><br><font color="#454545"><span style="line-height:23.8636px"><a href="https://ocio.wa.gov/policies/1000-g1-state-guidelines-%E2%80%93-accessibility-information-technology-individuals-disabilities" target="_blank">https://ocio.wa.gov/policies/1000-g1-state-guidelines-%E2%80%93-accessibility-information-technology-individuals-disabilities</a></span></font></span></font></li></ul><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><div><ul><li>For those of you who use <b>LibGuides</b>,  I did a quick check about <b>ADA compliance for LibGuides</b>, since most
 of the Edmonds CC Library's website uses the LibGuide platform, and LibGuides are 
developed with course instructors and are heavily used to support 
individual courses. We have over 100 of these to date <a href="http://edcc.libguides.com/" target="_blank">http://edcc.libguides.com/ </a></li></ul><div><br></div><div>Here is what I found, please see <a href="http://springshare.com/libguides/features.html" target="_blank">http://springshare.com/libguides/features.html</a></div><div>specifically the section about ADA Compliant Design</div><div><br></div><img src="http://springshare.com/images/lg-feat-ada.png" alt="ADA Compliant Design" style="max-width:100%;min-height:auto;vertical-align:middle;border:0px none;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;float:left;margin-left:10px"><h5 style="margin:0px 0px 10px;font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:500;line-height:20px;color:rgb(104,109,125);font-size:16px;padding:0px;letter-spacing:-1px">ADA-Compliant Design</h5><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(103,103,103);font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.4em!important">LibGuides
 provides alternative pages for screen readers and hidden 
skip-to-navigation links for patrons using adaptive technologies.</p></div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="Tahoma"></font> </div><div><font face="Tahoma"></font> </div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Vivienne Mcclendon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vivienne.mcclendon@bellevuecollege.edu" target="_blank">vivienne.mcclendon@bellevuecollege.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">



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<p class="MsoNormal">In addition to ACRL and accreditation standards, I am interested in the policies and guidelines in making online library services fully accessible to students.   Earlier this week I attended an excellent conference, Accessing Higher Ground,
 and the number of new technologies that enable students to access resources in alternate formats, e.g. digital Braille, MP3, DAISY and e-books, was fascinating.   What tools is your institution using to make online library resources accessible to students
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Candara,sans-serif;color:rgb(50,62,79)">Joyce Carroll | Associate Dean, Office of Instruction</span><span style="font-size:10pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Candara,sans-serif;color:rgb(50,62,79)">Bellevue College, 3000 Landerholm Circle SE, Bellevue WA 98007-6484</span><span style="font-size:10pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Georgia">Vivienne McClendon, Ph.D., MLIS</span><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Georgia"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Georgia">Dean, Library Media Center, D260H</span><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Georgia"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Georgia">Bellevue College </span><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(24,41,81)"> |  </span></b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Georgia"><a href="tel:425.564.3056" value="+14255643056" target="_blank">425.564.3056</a> </span><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(24,41,81)"> |</span></b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Georgia"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Georgia">Bellevue, WA 98007-6484</span><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Georgia"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Georgia"><a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,233)">vivienne.mcclendon@bellevuecollege.edu</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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