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Item Being an 'a11y': Increasing Accessibility in Born Digital Preservation(2014-03-25) Snider, Lisa; Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at AustinIn the past few years, archivists and librarians have grappled with issues associated with the long term preservation of born digital materials. Are we considering the needs of people with disabilities when preserving these materials? This presentation will explore how we can increase accessibility when preserving born digital materials. Taken from an archival point of view, the presentation will focus on one solution that may make our born digital material more accessible to people with disabilities.Item Checking In: OER Accessibility as a Journey, not a Destination(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-18) McClean, JessicaSince its inception in 2018, the UTA Libraries OER publishing program has centered accessibility as a core principle. Mavs Open Press has established award-winning accessibility statements and workflows to ensure our resources are accessible to and usable for all readers. However, after exploring SiteImprove, a new accessibility tool that we hoped would streamline our processes, we found that we were still missing the mark in many ways—not only did we discover a number of issues that had been either introduced since or missed by our initial accessibility checks, but we also found that even our newer resources were subject to link rot. We assure our authors that their OER will be living documents that can continue to grow and develop over time, but our accessibility standards still reflected a traditional model where a resource could be considered “finished” upon publication. Beginning this summer, we will begin piloting a new model of continuing quality control for our published resources in order to maintain our high standards over time. This presentation will discuss the existing Mavs Open Press accessibility requirements, introduce this new quality control model, and consider possible challenges for implementation and scalability.Item Chromatin dynamics at the Saccharomyces cerevisiae PHO5 promoter(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12) Jessen, Walter JosephIn eukaryotes, the organization of DNA into chromatin is a primary determinant of gene expression. Positioned nucleosomes in promoter regions are frequently found to regulate gene expression by obstructing the accessibility of cis-regulatory elements in DNA to trans-factors. This dissertation focuses on the chromatin structure and remodeling program at the S. cerevisiae PHO5 promoter, extending the use of DNA methyltransferases as in vivo probes of chromatin structure. Our studies address the diversity of histone-DNA interactions in vivo by examining nucleosome conformational stabilities at the PHO5 promoter. We present high-resolution chromatin structural mapping of the promoter, required to relate in vivo site accessibility to nucleosome stability and show that the PHO5 promoter nucleosomes have different accessibilities. We show a correlation between DNA curvature and nucleosome positioning, which is consistent with the observed differences in accessibility/stability. Kinetic analyses of the chromatin remodeling program at PHO5 show that nucleosomes proximal to the enhancer are disrupted preferentially and prior to those more distal, demonstrating bidirectional and finite propagation of chromatin remodeling from bound activators and providing a novel mechanism by which transactivation at a distance occurs.Item Digitizing for Accessibility: Building a Multimedia Disability History Archive That’s ADA Compliant(2017-05-24) Schenk, Krystal; Leverenz, Andrew; University of Texas at ArlingtonIn the late 1960s, disabled students convinced UT Arlington administrators to make the campus accessible to students with a wide array of disabilities, striving to make the school into a model campus for Texas and the greater Southwest. This pioneering spirit continues today with establishment of the Minor in Disability Studies in 2013, the first such program in the southern U.S. In order to support this new program and to preserve a rich campus history, the UTA Libraries assembled hundreds of items from its Special Collections relating to people with disabilities, including photographs, videos, reports, letters, and objects. Added to these were oral histories from a wide variety of disability rights activists, athletes and coaches in adapted sports, advocates for higher education accessibility, and alumni of UTA, among others. The resulting Texas Disability History Collection website was built using the Drupal content management system. The size and scope of the project posed several challenges, including how to merge metadata from 27 separate collections, how to prepare the materials to be accessible by people with disabilities, and how to design and test the website to ensure the broadest accessibility.Item DSpace Accessibility Audit Summer 2020(Texas Digital Library, 2020-09-15) Smithroat, KatherineItem The Government Documents Digitization Initiative: Shepherding Resources from Shelf to Server(2017-05-25) Laddusaw, Ryan; Sare, Laura; Buckner, Sean; Texas A&M UniversityIn Fall 2016, the Texas A&M University Libraries embarked on a project to digitize a collection of Flood Insurance Studies, published by the Federal Insurance & Mitigation Administration and to submit them to HathiTrust. To enable long-term access and discoverability, we have decided to assign each item an Archival Resource Key (ARK) as both a persistent identifier and a uniform resource locator. We are using the EZID service to maintain our identifiers and their N2T (name-to-thing) resolver to persist and provide metadata for our items. We then create metadata for each report and process each one into a submission information packet according to HathiTrust’s guidelines and submit them for ingestion. A Flood Insurance Study (FIS) is a compilation and presentation of flood risk data for specific watercourses, lakes, and coastal flood hazard areas within a community. When a flood study is completed for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), the information and maps are assembled into an FIS. For a few years, these studies were distributed to federal depository libraries. Many depository libraries are digitizing their collections for inclusion into HathiTrust. We noticed that some FIS digitized in HathiTrust were missing some of the foldout data tables, so we decided to digitize our collection and focus on making sure the maps and data tables were viewable in an online format. To ensure continued access to this collection, we have created an Archival Resource Key (ARK) for each item. ARKs are a type of persistent identifier that also function as a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). This allows a user to enter the ARK and the N2T resolver’s hostname into a web browser and arrive at a page containing metadata that will enable them to easily identify and locate the desired resource. This allows researchers to embed the ARK in their work, and anyone can use this URL property to quickly locate and access the referenced material. By digitizing this collection, we are able to increase accessibility and discoverability of these resources. This project will produce a digital version of this collection, and will allow us to reduce the size of the physical collection and save space, without sacrificing access to any of these items. In this presentation, we will review the origins of the project, present the workflow involved from scanning to HathiTrust submission, and talk about the future of the project.Item Inclusive repository design, planning and execution: What we can do better(2017-03-29) Mumma, Courtney; Estlund, KarenItem June 2018 Forum(Texas Digital Library, 2018-06-20) Park, Kristi; Mumma, Courtney; DeForest, LeaItem Multilingual User Interface Options for Open Source Library Technology(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-16) Oduok, ImaLinguistic accessibility is often overlooked in overall discussions of software and website usage. As part of my residency, I looked at the linguistic accessibility of several TDL open source software platforms to assess what is currently available and what isn’t. Part of that assessment was identifying what options may exist to expand the selection of available translations. This session will break down the current language offering for TDL supported platforms, limitations, and potential solutions for the future.Item Session 13B | Universal Usability(2021-03-12) Day, JaxsenThis presentation will offer the audience a chance to understand the central ideas behind universal usability and the impacts of this design philosophy, to learn ways universal usability can be implemented in terms of content or physical design, to be exposed to assistive technologies and the strengths and limitations of those technologies, to brainstorm ways these technologies could be improved, to think about how universal usability can be used in future design endeavors, and to evaluate usability testing methods and best practices for determining universal usability.Item Session 1A | Accessibility in Digital A/V Collections(Texas Digital Library, 2022-05-23) Hanke, Mirko; Bondurant, JohnAre you confused about the technical, legal, or logistical challenges associated with making collections of audiovisual materials available on the web? Do you get lost in the conversations about standards, formats, platforms, and jargon? Does it seem like other groups on your campus are working in a similar area but have a different set of requirements and issues? Well, you aren’t alone! Libraries and archives around the state of Texas are working to make vast collections of digital audiovisual material available. Making these resources accessible is an important component in this process that provides a new set of challenges for collection managers and technologists to overcome. Investing in accessible content not only makes these resources available and usable to persons with different abilities, but also provides new and exciting opportunities for discovery and reuse. This birds-of-a-feather session follows a mini-series of webinars organized by TDL members in early 2022. Focussing on digital audiovisual cultural heritage collection materials, we invite you to share your organization's experience with making collections accessible. Join us for a discussion of technical, curatorial and organizational approaches, as well as lessons learned, and let us explore opportunities for continued shared learning.Item Session 2C | Video and Radio Star Are Both Alive and Still Good Friends: Bringing A/V Content to the Ut Libraries Collections Portal(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-25) Hanke, Mirko; Price, KevinFor libraries and archives, the COVID-19 pandemic has radically amplified our patron’s need for broad and convenient electronic access to resources for study and research. For time-based media, like audio recordings or movies, providing online access presents both technical and curatorial challenges. The University of Texas Libraries recently completed a development project which helps to broaden access to our rich treasure trove of digitized audio and video assets. The Libraries’ search and browse interface for digitized collections now features streaming media, supported by open source software for the UI, as well as the latest version of the IIIF Presentation API.Item Session 2E | Metadata Works From Home: How Student Workers Continued to Work While Increasing Collection Accessibility(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-25) Vinson, Emily; Weidner, AndrewTo keep our on-site student staff gainfully employed in early 2020, as the realities of the coronavirus pandemic came into sharp focus, a University of Houston Libraries team hatched a plan for student employees to create high quality closed captions for hundreds of digitized archival films and videos. The project team developed training materials and began working with twenty-six students from six units across the libraries within two weeks of the campus closure. This presentation will discuss the project design, unique challenges of training and communicating with student employees, and the outcomes of the effort.Item Session 2E | Pandemic problem solving: creating a transcription workflow process for student employees on the fly(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-25) Franklin, AlyssaI will discuss how we overcame the hurdles of rapidly switching to remote work modalities, and created work-from-home transcription projects from scratch to keep our department’s students employed. In March 2020, UTSA announced all non-essential employees would immediately move to remote work, this included all student employees at UTSA Libraries. Special Collections had 5 student clerks at the time, whose entire job duties had been tied to a physical presence on campus. My supervisor, Julianna Barrera-Gomez, and myself, rapidly addressed this issue through a whirlwind transcript workflow and process creation. We researched best practices, created training modules, and utilized Google Drive to coordinate with all of our students, and to organize their submissions. We took this a step further by creating secondary review processes that the students could complete themselves, and we were able to generate transcripts for dozens of digital videos and text-based documents in our digital library, increasing accessibility.Item Session 3A | TDL Services Rodeo(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-26) Park, Kristi; Mumma, Courtney; Deforest, Lea; Woodward, Nicholas; Smutniak, Frank; Lauland, NickIn collaboration with our member institutions, Texas Digital Library (TDL) provides services and infrastructure that enable equitable access to and preservation of digital content of value to research, instruction, cultural heritage, and institutional memory. In this panel presentation, TDL leadership will be joined by TDL staff members who support these services to give attendees a roundup of quick-fire updates on TDL’s stable of services -- including what TDL has accomplished over the past year and what it has planned for the year ahead. Among other things, attendees will learn about: TDL’s newest metadata aggregation service for the Digital Public Library of America; Recent improvements to our institutional repository and academic journal hosting services; A pilot project to accommodate larger datasets in TDR through remote storage; Outcomes of the IMLS-funded Digital Preservation for Private and Sensitive Data project; Plans for accessibility assessments and improvements for all hosted applications; Efforts to provide simple pathways from our hosted repositories and journals to digital preservation storage; Updates on the roll-out of Vireo 4, and what’s coming next; Outcomes from TDL’s first two years of Open Education Network membership