Develop accessibility best practices for cross-compatible digitized materials

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Rationale

Developing accessibility best practices for cross-compatible digitized materials will ensure all users can easily access resources, promote equitable information access, and provide staff with the training needed to implement these standards effectively.

Outcomes

• Accessible Cross-Compatible Digitized Content

Creating accessible, cross-compatible content enhances the usability of our collections for all users, regardless of their abilities or the devices they use. All users will be able to access and benefit from a rich variety of resources, fostering a more equitable information environment.

• Best Practices Documentation

Creation of a comprehensive best practices guide that outlines effective strategies for ensuring accessibility in digitized collections. Accessibility experts and external organizations will validate guidelines and contribute to their development.

• Training Resources for Staff

Development of training materials and workshops for staff to educate them on accessibility best practices within cross compatible formats.

• Awareness Campaign

Launch of an awareness campaign to inform stakeholders and users about the importance of accessibility in digitized collections and the newly developed guidelines.

Issues

• Meet with experts on EPUB metadata guidelines from NISO #28
• Create a brainstorming document for IIIF presentation API accessibility guidelines and share it with the community for review #29
• Work with the IIIF A/V TSG on specific accessibility specifications in the Presentation API  #27
• Give a presentation to the IIIF community on accessibility in IIIF manifests - using the editor #30
• Create documentation on CRKN's 'accessible manifest' creation process for staff and members #31
• Consider a provides property on Annotation  IIIF/api#2308