Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Database accessibility issues

A couple of resources to note

CLAUD: "Librarians in Higher Education networking to improve library access for disabled users in the South and South-West of England"
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/claud/intro.html
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/claud/events-res.html

Open University Library
http://library.open.ac.uk/help/access/index.cfm?id=7007
This page provides suggestions for overcoming known accessibility issues with some of the databases ... The instructions mainly relate to screen readers with some information for keyboard only users. Resources were tested using JAWS and Internet Explorer 6 ...

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