[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen web client accessibility audit

[Benjamin Kalish]

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On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 12:21 PM Tiffany Little <tlittle at georgialibraries.org>
wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> In June, the Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation (CIDI) completed
> an accessibility audit on the Evergreen web client, at the request of
> PINES. The resulting report and findings were approved to be shared widely.
> The Evergreen Project Board deemed it beneficial to share the results here
> on the community listservs, to raise awareness of the audit and to bring
> attention to the issues raised in the hope that others may be able to work
> on remediating these issues.
>
> There is now a section on the Evergreen wiki dedicated to accessibility:
> https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=accessibility:home where you
> can find the results of the audit, as well as a walk-through video showing
> the different trouble spots.
>
> Additionally, I have begun opening Launchpad bugs for the issues reported
> in the audit. Many of the reported issues are small but important fixes, so
> we hope that the community will be able to turn its attention to these to
> increase the accessibility of Evergreen.
>
> You can find a list of all bugs tagged with "accessibility", sorted by
> last updated, here
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bugs?field.tag=accessibility&orderby=-date_last_updated&start=0>
> .
>
> If there are any questions about the audit or its subsequent bug reports,
> I'm happy to answer whatever I can.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tiffany Little, PINES Services Specialist: Acquisitions
>
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