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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">LYRASIS announces the release of a new study, Understanding the Landscape of Library Accessibility for Online Materials. The study was undertaken in an effort
to map the landscape of accessibility policies and practices for online resources as managed by libraries and archives across the United States. The study can be accessed on the LYRASIS website at</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.lyrasis.org/technology/Pages/Accessibility-Survey-Report.aspx"><span style="color:#954F72">https://www.lyrasis.org/technology/Pages/Accessibility-Survey-Report.aspx</span></a>.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Authored by Hannah Rosen, LYRASIS Scholarly Communication Specialist and Digitization Program Coordinator, and Jill Grogg, Strategist for the Content and Scholarly Communication Initiatives team, the
study is based on a survey</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">conducted in early 2019 as a mechanism to
better understand how (primarily academic) libraries within the United States are handling accessibility for their online content, and more specifically, where they stand in terms of policy and implementation. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Key findings of the study include:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Libraries
are the most progressive in terms of accessibility when they maintain the most control over their content.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">National
policies and community technical guidelines on accessibility hold more prominence than local or institutional mandates.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Most
accessibility training is self-initiated; more infrastructure is needed to train librarians in accessibility mandates and tools.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Celeste Feather, Senior Director of Content and Scholarly Communication Initiatives at LYRASIS says of the report, “This study is an important piece of the work LYRASIS is doing to understand
the needs of collections holding institutions across the country, and helps unite libraries in their efforts to make materials more accessible to their users and communities. Our goal is to leverage the reach we have at LYRASIS, with more than 1000 members,
to help build conversations around these vital topics and use our research abilities to inform the wider community about these important trends and best practices.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The report and all survey materials, including original survey questions and anonymized responses are accessible on the LYRASIS webpage. Visit
<a href="https://www.lyrasis.org/technology/Pages/Accessibility-Survey-Report.aspxx">
<span style="color:#954F72">https://www.lyrasis.org/technology/Pages/Accessibility-Survey-Report.aspxx</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for more information.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">LYRASIS Content and Scholarly Communication Initiatives Team</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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