AtoM accessibility and usability

[Jenny Mitcham]

Hi,

I wanted to share the following blog post with you that highlights some usability and accessibility issues with our implementation of AtoM 2.4.

http://digital-archiving.blogspot.com/2018/07/accessibility-and-usability-report-for.html

Some of these are related to our local customisations and colours but others may be of interest to other AtoM users who have the Dominion theme.

I hope this is useful.

Cheers,

Jen

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Jenny Mitcham
Digital Archivist
Borthwick Institute for Archives

University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD

Telephone: 01904 321170

Borthwick Institute website: http://www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/
Digital archiving blog: http://digital-archiving.blogspot.co.uk/

Twitter: @Jenny_Mitcham

Skype: jenny_mitcham

[Dan Gillean]

Thanks so much for this, Jen!

Some work has been done in the 2.3 release, sponsored by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, to improve AtoM's accessibility somewhat - we made some mobile/responsiveness fixes, and added screenreader support and better keyboard navigation for the public user interface. However, as you've rightly pointed out, there is a long way to go, and much more we could do to improve the accessibility and overall usability (especially on mobile) of the application. I hope we might be able to collaborate with our community and take on more of this work in the future. 

Regards, 

Dan Gillean, MAS, MLIS
AtoM Program Manager
Artefactual Systems, Inc.
604-527-2056

@accesstomemory

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