Enhancing accessibility in STEM: A survey of accessibility errors in STEM academic databases
| dc.contributor.author | Van Loon, James | |
| dc.contributor.author | McCann, Shawn | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-10-07T12:04:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-10-07T12:04:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-09-19 | |
| dc.description | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship on September 19, 2024, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/1941126X.2024.2383520 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Academic libraries must provide accessible electronic and information technology to patrons using assistive technology to access library materials. Accessibility of scholarly material is particularly important in the STEM disciplines, where attrition rates of students with disabilities is higher than in other fields. In this study, the accessibility of STEM indexing databases was evaluated using the WAVE accessibility tool, and the frequency of errors, alerts, and features encountered during the completion of typical searching tasks for each database was noted. The use of accessibility-checking tools like WAVE can supplement other methods used to verify the accessibility of vendor-created library databases. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Van Loon, J., & McCann, S. (2024). Enhancing accessibility in STEM: a survey of accessibility errors in STEM academic databases. Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 36(3), 190–202. https://doi.org/10.1080/1941126X.2024.2383520 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1941-1278 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10323/18299 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | |
| dc.relation.department | OU Libraries | eng |
| dc.subject | Accessibility | |
| dc.subject | Academic libraries | |
| dc.subject | Indexing and abstracting databases | |
| dc.title | Enhancing accessibility in STEM: A survey of accessibility errors in STEM academic databases | |
| dc.type | Article |