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Join the Accessibility & Accommodations Librarian from New York University (NYU) Libraries for a presentation on enhancing the accessibility of your LibGuides.

In order to support building a culture of accessibility at NYU Libraries, the User Experience Team at NYU Libraries managed a project to remediate the suite of LibGuides created across NYU Libraries for improved accessibility. The remediation was conducted in response to an agreement that NYU has made with the Departments of Justice and Education, but the project also coincided with an organizational-wide effort to prioritize inclusion, diversity, belonging, equity, and accessibility into all the work that takes place in the Libraries. This project resulted in providing students and other community members with a more welcoming, accessible, and inclusive experience in using the Libraries' Research Guides.

The Accessibility & Accommodations Librarian, a member of the UX Team at NYU Libraries, will provide an overview of the project and how it supported the accessibility remediation to maximize the experience for students. The talk will identify key areas we focused on to enhance the content delivered within the LibGuides system for accessibility and will offer suggestions for replicability at your own organization. Areas of focus for the remediation include cognitive load; page layout for logical navigation; style including font, size, and color; contextual links; using lists; providing multiple means for expressing and representing information (video, text, audio). Resources that support the project will be shared for further use. Talk will conclude with a summary of how this project made the Libraries’ Research Guides more welcoming, accessible, and inclusive for students.

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About the Presenter:

Lauren Kehoe is the Accessibility & Accommodations Librarian at New York University Libraries. She has held this position for two years, although she’s been at NYU for four. In this role she advocates for more accessible facilities, services, and resources within NYU’s Division of Libraries. She accomplishes this through direct support of students with disabilities, advocacy, collaboration within and without the Libraries, and professional development support to her colleagues in the Libraries and University. Previously, Lauren served as the Undergraduate Instruction & Outreach Librarian and the Liaison to Students with Disabilities at NYU Libraries. She graduated from NYU with a BA in Dramatic Literature & Cinema Studies and received her MLIS from Pratt Institute and her MA in Digital Humanities from the City University of New York Graduate Center.