Accessibility

Worthington Memory affirms our goal to enrich people’s experience of Worthington applies to everyone, including people with disabilities.

Worthington Libraries staff members are working to integrate accessibility into the design and development of Worthington Memory, including adapting many third-party software add-ons to be more accessible and encouraging accessible practices among developers of these add-ons.

Library staff continually evaluate the accessibility of our websites, including Worthington Memory, based on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) using content audits assisted by automated accessibility testing tools as well as manual testing via keyboards and screen readers. Our websites are largely conformant with WCAG 2.2 Level AA.

The Worthington Memory scrapbook collection includes some highly visual and multimedia content that require additional accessibility support. We have taken some steps to ensure this type of content is more accessible, including alternative text for all visual images and long descriptions for many of those images, transcriptions of some manuscripts and print text and some transcriptions of audio recordings. However, some aspects of the collection are not fully compliant with WCAG 2.2 Level AA.

• Some visual images are lacking long descriptions. We will produce text alternatives for all images that describe the content in more detail.
• Less than a quarter of the audio content in the collection has transcribed text. We will provide text alternatives for all audio content.
• None of the video content in the collection has text alternatives. As relevant, we will transcribe speech and dialogue as well as provide audio descriptions. We will develop an approach to incorporate transcriptions and descriptions as captions synchronized with the video imagery.
• Only a fraction of the digitized documents consisting of hand-written or print text have transcriptions. We will provide text alternatives via manual transcription and/or optical character recognition (OCR) for all digitized text.
• The existing PDF transcript files are largely accessible but are missing some metadata elements and other document-level settings. We will regenerate PDFs that are fully compliant.

We are undertaking the remediation of this content on an ongoing basis as time and resources allow. To request immediate remediation of specific content, please let us know by requesting accessibility support via the Worthington Libraries website.

Accessibility is an ongoing effort and we welcome feedback to improve the experience of using the Worthington Memory website. If you encounter any barriers while using our website, please request accessibility support. You may also email us at accessibility@worthingtonlibraries.org.

Thank you for helping us ensure Worthington Memory is accessible to all!