Hello,I am looking into accessibility accommodations in AtoM and was wondering what accessibility features AtoM works with? I saw that the 2.3 release had improved keyboard navigation and screen reader support, are there any other features? Or further information about screen readers? How does this impact access to digital objects?
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Regards,I wish I could tell you more, but I was only peripherally involved in this development project. As far as I know, the inclusion of aria tags did not extend to, for example, gracefully degrading user interface elements depending on accessibility and browser support, etc. so there is surely more work that could be done. As we learned from this project, accessibility is something that should ideally be built in from the ground up in a web application - it can be much more difficult to add it later. This is a lesson I am strongly advocating that we carry forward into AtoM's next generation, when the time comes.I'm not sure how this would impact access to digital objects - there is not currently a manual field in the user interface where users could add alt-text for images or video, for example. When a PDF has a text layer it is added to the index, so a screenreader should probably also be able to interpret it, but of course it depends on the quality of the text layer (some OCR on older documents can be terrible).Hi Krista,So far, that work is all we have been able to do to better support accessibility in AtoM. Essentially, we added basic aria tags (for screen readers) throughout the public interface and made sure that alt-text was available wherever possible, as well as adding the keyboard navigation fixes for the search box and browse menus. The sponsoring client for this work had hired an independent accessibility advisor who was testing with a screenreader throughout, but there are definitely places where this could be improved. Thus far, no work has been done to add this kind of accessibility to the internal site - e.g. the edit templates etc when you are logged in. We would love to do more of this kind of work!
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Hello,I am looking into accessibility accommodations in AtoM and was wondering what accessibility features AtoM works with? I saw that the 2.3 release had improved keyboard navigation and screen reader support, are there any other features? Or further information about screen readers? How does this impact access to digital objects?
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