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Do You Hear What I See? Assessing Accessibility of Digital Commons and CONTENTdm
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Walker, Wendy; Keenan, Teressa – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2015
This article discusses the accessibility of two content management systems, Berkeley Electronic Press's Digital Commons and OCLC's CONTENTdm, widely used in libraries to host institutional repository and digital collections content. Based on observations by a visually impaired student who used the JAWS screen reader to view the design and display…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Database Management Systems, Access to Information
Workplace Concepts in Sign and Text. A Computerized Sign Language Dictionary.
Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, Pittsburgh. – 1991
This document is a dictionary of essential vocabulary, signs, and illustrations of workplace activities to be used to train deaf or hearing-impaired adults. It contains more than 500 entries with workplace-relevant vocabulary, each including an illustration of the signed word or phrase in American Sign Language, a description of how to make the…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Computer Uses in Education
Developing a Computer Data File: Signs, Illustrations, and Vocabulary for Use with and by Hearing-Impaired Adults.
Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, Pittsburgh. – 1991
A project developed a computerized data file of essential vocabulary, signs, and illustrations to be used to train deaf or hearing-impaired adults. Project activities included the following: designing a data entry and retrieval system for the project; identifying the interactive vocabulary most needed by deaf employees and their co-workers;…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, American Sign Language