ALA Emerging Leaders Team K Poster
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Team K conducted an accessibility study of the ALA.org website, asking librarians using assistive devices and ALA members about their experiences. They found issues with search box placement, lack of alt text for images and forms, and missing skip navigation. Their top 5 recommendations were to place the search box in the top left, ensure all elements have meaningful alt text, add consistent skip navigation, employ scannable text principles, and create cleaner pages with consolidated navigation.
ALA Emerging Leaders Team K Poster
- 1. ALA Emerging Leaders Program 2010 Team K: ALA.org Accessibility/Usability Study Is the ALA.org website accessible to everyone? results and recommendations We asked Librarians who use assistive devices about 1. Place the search box on the top left corner of the home page. Participants used the search box frequently, it should be easier to access with assistive devices. 1.1 Finding the latest ALA press release 1.2 Finding an accredited library school 2. Ensure that all images, button, and form elements have Alt Text that is concise and meaningful. 1.3 Finding a committee chair 1.4 Using a form 3. Provide additional skip navigation throughout the website for easier navigation. Consistent application of skip navigation, a vitally important function, will improve accessibility. Then, we asked ALA members about 4. Employ scannable-text principles including higlighted keywords, meaningful headings and sub- 2.1 Editing their ALA membership profile headings, bold text, bulleted lists, and left-justified menus. 2.2 Submitting a committee volunteer form Participants using assistive devices scan a web page, just as other web users do. These functions 2.3 Using the ALA Job List will make using ALA.org more efficient for them. 5. Create cleaner pages with consolidated navigation options and concise content. Team K: Chelle Batchelor, Lisa Chow, Cynthia Matthias, Jennifer Rutner ALA Advisor: Louise Gruenberg