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Accessibility at JSTOR : From box‐checking to a more inclusive and sustainable future
Author(s) -
Trimble Lauren
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
learned publishing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.06
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-4857
pISSN - 0953-1513
DOI - 10.1002/leap.1134
Subject(s) - key (lock) , face (sociological concept) , internet privacy , web accessibility , debt , business , computer science , digital content , world wide web , computer security , the internet , sociology , finance , web standards , social science
Key points Testing for accessibility after extensive changes to a website and addressing them as technical debt is unsustainable in the long term. To stay modern and efficient, providers of digital content to academic institutions should build accessibility into development. For JSTOR, working with participating institutions to understand their concerns was essential to reaching WCAG 2.0 AA conformance. With Artstor recently joining ITHAKA, we face the challenge of making a visual archive accessible.