\u201cWe have to work together on this.\u201d Wise words from Kate Deibel, Inclusion and Accessibility Librarian at Syracuse University Libraries. Her presentation on disability access in libraries really has me thinking of all the ways we can make our library more accessible and how that applies to library services for children.<\/p>\n
Kate\u2019s suggestion to involve patrons and staff in the planning process when preparing for increased accessibility certainly resonates. We can ask children and caregivers what they would like to see. If you\u2019re doing a survey though, you must remember to make it accessible. It defeats the point of the survey if the patrons you\u2019re trying to reach can\u2019t complete that survey.<\/p>\n
Kate also discussed web accessibility in detail and how many vendors websites are not accessible. She recommends that if we stand together in demanding more accessibility for our patrons and staff, we will succeed. It may take some time, but together we can get it done!<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been a long day of conferencing, so I\u2019m relaxing for a bit then heading to see “The Public!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cWe have to work together on this.\u201d Wise words from Kate Deibel, Inclusion and Accessibility Librarian at Syracuse University Libraries. Her presentation on disability access in libraries really has me thinking of all the ways we can make our library more accessible and how that applies to library services for children. Kate\u2019s suggestion to involve patrons and staff in the planning process when preparing for increased accessibility certainly resonates. We can ask children and caregivers what they would like to see. If you\u2019re doing a survey though, you must remember to make it accessible. It defeats the point of the survey if the patrons you\u2019re trying to reach can\u2019t complete that survey. Kate also discussed web accessibility in detail and how many vendors websites are not accessible. She recommends that if we stand together in demanding more accessibility for our patrons and staff, we will succeed. It may take some…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":323,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1659,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-midwinter-2019","category-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}