aserl-accessibilityig Mailing List: Upcoming Library Accessibility Alliance Webinar - Establishing Design Principles to Center Accessibility into Everyday Decisions

[Beth Ashmore (beashmor]

The Library Accessibility Alliance Training Committee invites you to join
us for the upcoming webinar:


*Establishing Design Principles to Center Accessibility into Everyday
Decisions*
*February 22, 2023 at 1pm Eastern Time*
Libraries are meant for everyone. While libraries have long claimed this to
be true, exclusionary practices and inaccessible systems still exist and
are extremely difficult to fully eradicate. The act of methodically
creating a culture of accessibility hinges on each member of an
organization as they seek to ask constructive questions and make decisions
that pull the organization in a unified direction. In an attempt to infuse
accessibility into the culture at the University of Virginia Library, the
library used a collaborative process to establish and adopt a system of
four design principles. If exclusionary practices and inaccessible systems
can be designed, we can learn to recognize them, so they can be redesigned.
Using these design principles as organizational values to guide
conversations can mean less time establishing a shared understanding of the
problems at hand, and thus lead to more focused, effective, and inclusive
solutions. This process seeks to help empower individuals and departments
to act in ways in which they can engage in real change. Through this
webinar, participants will learn more about the concept of design
principles, including how they can be useful in cultivating intentionally
accessible environments, and will come away with tools for beginning these
conversations at their own institutions.

Speakers:

   - *Elyse Girard*: Executive Director of Communications and User
   Experience, University of Virginia Library
   - *Christopher Welte*: Director of User Experience Design, University of
   Virginia Library

To register, visit the Library Accessibility Alliance Events Webpage
<https://www.libraryaccessibility.org/events/establishing-design-principles-center-accessibility-everyday-decisions>
. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing
information about joining the meeting. For more information about the
Library Accessibility Alliance visit our website
<https://libraryaccessibility.org/>.


-- 
Beth Ashmore
Associate Head, Acquisitions and Discovery (Serials)
North Carolina State University Libraries
beashmor [at] ncsu.edu
919-513-3354
(Pronouns: she, her, hers)



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