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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Of possible interest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Gayle Schechter <gschechter@CLIR.ORG>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 17, 2021 7:40 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> DLF-ANNOUNCE@LISTS.CLIR.ORG<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Digital Library Accessibility and Usability Guidelines (DLAUG) to Support Blind and Visually Impaired Users<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hello everyone,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We’re thrilled to share an announcement from the project team of the newly released “Digital Library Accessibility and Usability Guidelines (DLAUG) to Support Blind and Visually Impaired Users.” CLIR/DLF is
not affiliated with this project, so please contact Iris Xie directly if you have any questions.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Best,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Gayle</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Dear colleagues,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">With the support from consultants, members of our advisory board, partners, and participants for this IMLS funded project <span style="background:white">"<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Digital
Library Accessibility and Usability Guidelines (DLAUG) to Support Blind and Visually Impaired Users,</span></strong>"</span> t</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#201F1E">he project is completed. We have conducted user studies, created the guidelines
based on the problems that BVI users encountered in their interactions with DLs, conducted the survey with three groups of stakeholders for the draft of the guidelines, had DL developers assessed the existing DLs based on the guidelines, ran focus groups,
implemented the changes for the guidelines based on suggestions from consultants, users, scholars/experts, and developers. You can find the DLAUG on the project site. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Here is the url for the site:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://sites.uwm.edu/guidelines/" target="_blank">https://sites.uwm.edu/guidelines/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><a href="https://sites.uwm.edu/guidelines/" target="_blank" title="https://sites.uwm.edu/guidelines/">Digital Library Accessibility and Usability Guidelines (DLAUG)</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#666666">Introduction. The DLAUG is a set of accessibility and usability guidelines created for digital library (DL) developers to support blind and visually impaired
(BVI) users who rely on screen readers to interact with DLs.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#A6A6A6">sites.uwm.edu</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black;background:white">We have presented the guidelines and associated appendixes. Additionally, we added the option to download the complete guidelines in PDF format. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="color:black;background:white">Please help us promote the DLAUG and solicit feedback to further improve the guidelines.</span></b><span style="color:black;background:white"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black;background:white">Thanks you.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Iris</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">Iris Xie, Ph.D.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><br>
<span style="background:white">Professor</span><br>
<span style="background:white">School of Information Studies</span><br>
<span style="background:white">University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Phone:(414)229-6835 Fax:(414)229-6699</span><br>
<a href="http://people.uwm.edu/hiris/" target="_blank"><span style="background:white">http://people.uwm.edu/hiris/</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Gayle Schechter, MSLIS | she/her/hers</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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