Accessibility is an important consideration when creating and deploying academic digital library search and discovery services, including Ex Libris Primo. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2) are typically used as a foundation, organized around the principles of perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust. Most of these guidelines focus on supporting people with physical and sensory disabilities; the few that provide guidance on supporting diverse cognitive abilities focus on the predictability of actions and providing enough time to read/use content. There is a growing body of academic research on the challenges that neurodiverse students face when searching for information within libraries. When such neurodiversity manifests as dyslexia or ADHD, the impact is often on working memory capacity and attention. In this presentation, we will explain how Dilex Search, a discovery interface layer that integrates seamlessly with Primo, provides visual memory aids that mitigate some of the difficulties that neurodiverse searchers face.
Accessibility is an important consideration when creating and deploying academic digital library search and discovery services, including Ex Libris Primo. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2) are typically used as a foundation, organized around the principles of perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust. Most of these guidelines focus on supporting people with physical and sensory disabilities; the few that provide guidance on supporting diverse cognitive abilities focus on the predictability of actions and providing enough time to read/use content. There is a growing body of academic research on the challenges that neurodiverse students face when searching for information within libraries. When such neurodiversity manifests as dyslexia or ADHD, the impact is often on working memory capacity and attention. In this presentation, we will explain how Dilex Search, a discovery interface layer that integrates seamlessly with Primo, provides visual memory aids that mitigate some of the difficulties that neurodiverse searchers face.
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