The Digital Accessibility Handbook for Libraries

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Authors: Faye O’Reilly
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Abstract

The Digital Accessibility Handbook for Libraries is a comprehensive how-to guide on making libraries more user-friendly for patrons with disabilities. The intended audience is librarians, library students, and other library professionals beginning their accessibility work. Many of the insights related in this text would be helpful to professionals in institutions working to design new spaces or services for their constituency. Institutions embarking on usability testing of their physical and online spaces would also benefit from the insights in the Handbook, especially chapter 7. Although the overt focus of the book is on patrons with disabilities, the authors do an excellent job of establishing that accessibility benefits all patrons: “Go beyond

Fields of Study & Subjects

Digital Accessibility for Disabilities Web and Library Services Library Science and Administration

Publication details

Journal / source
Library Resources and Technical Services
Volume
70
Issue
1
Publication date
15 January 2026