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Nicole Sump-Crethar, Director of Library Technology and Data Management
Casey Lowry, Web Developer
Habib Tabatabai, Executive Director
Risa Jensen-Jones, Director of Research and User Engagement
Jeffrey Musslewhite, Coordinator of Advancement and Communications
Shay Beezley, Assistant Director, Metadata & Cataloging
Kirsten Davis, Resource Acquisition Manager
Juliet Alavicheh, ILS Administrator
Casadee Jegelewicz, Graphic Designer
Digital accessibility is about making digital content available to everyone, including people with disabilities. This means making sure that websites, digital documents, apps, and other technologies can be used in a variety of ways and are compatible with assistive technology, such as screen readers.
Accessibility is more than just marking off a compliance checklist. It’s about people:
The ultimate goal of accessibility work is to make all content fully accessible, but this takes time. Many institutions have a lot of old documents and other material to remediate, and they should prioritize what to start with. If content is outdated and/or not being used regularly, it can often be archived instead of remediated.
This kind of content archive is not the same as a library archive, where historical content is made available to library users. Digitized archival content made available for research purposes should be made as accessible as possible. This may take a while to accomplish, so it's important to communicate to library users that they can request an item to be made fully accessible for them as needed.
The Max Chambers Library internal drive has a designated Archive folder where archived content is kept. [will update this section after Systems finalizes the details]
Many institutions use private, personalized documents for specific people, and it may not be feasible for staff to make all of these accessible. This would include:
Even though documents like this aren't required to be made fully accessible every time, it still needs to be made clear that they CAN be made accessible by request.
Chambers Library
Corner of Ayers St. & University Dr.
Edmond, OK
405-974-3361
The University of Central Oklahoma recognizes the university's main campus is located on the traditional lands of the Caddo and Wichita people.
View the full Land Acknowledgement.