The University Libraries are committed to making our content accessible to all users. For more on the Library’s disability resources and accommodations, please see our Accessibility page.
If you experience a barrier that affects your ability to access any digital Library content, please contact us at discovery@lists.unr.edu.
The Libraries website is designed and maintained to ensure WCAG 2.2 compliance. We perform biweekly accessibility scans to ensure new or revised content continues to meet that standard.
We have also built our website to work across all devices regardless of operating system, browser or screen size. Please tell us via this form if you discover content that you believe does not comply with these standards, or if you encounter any barriers while using these resources.
Many of our web pages are guides on the Springshare LibGuides platform and not part of the main Library website. Springshare is committed to meeting WCAG 2.1, Level AA standards and LibGuide page owners conduct accessibility scans before publishing. Guides are reviewed at least once a year to ensure content is accurate, current, and accessible.
When you search the Libraries website or online catalog to locate electronic collections or materials, you will generally come across two different kinds of digital content that the library offers:
The Libraries’ licensed resources (and the technological platforms through which they are hosted) are created, built, and maintained by outside entities, distributors, and publishers. The Libraries does not control the electronic content we acquire from these providers. If you are a user with a disability who experiences any barrier using our licensed resources (or those resources we have borrowed for you from another library), you can take advantage of various tools and library services that may be able to convert inaccessible content into content compatible with assistive technology.
In addition, the Libraries continuously advocates for better accessibility of licensed resources from the start, by asking distributors and publishers to make assurances of accessibility in compliance with Federal and state laws and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA. Some of the specific ways we engage in advocacy include:
Nearly all these items come from other institutions, so intervention is prohibitive. Basic accessibility is becoming the standard among libraries, but we offer UNR users advanced remediation upon request.
We will provide automatically generated captions and transcripts, simple (uncorrected) optical character recognition for typewritten materials, or generate brief descriptions of images upon request.
Box’s web app meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 (WCAG 2.2) Level AA. Library staff using Box should be uploading accessible documents for users in conjunction with consultations and class sessions.
Ticket Tailor asserts that people using assistive devices, like screen readers, should be able to independently register for an event and manage their ticket.
The Libraries always use alt text for images and descriptive text for links on the event page itself.
Forms are accessible and only users who have completed an annual web accessibility training can create them. They have a compliance page linked.
EMMA is the email marketing platform Libraries marketing uses to generate emails that are sent to faculty and members of the community.
When emails are designed, marketing follows all University accessibility standards: photos are captioned with alt text, links are linked using full sentence/full statement language. See the EMMA accessibility statement.
The Libraries social media posts follow all University Marketing and Communications (MarComm) guidelines. MarComm reviews the Libraries content across social channels and verifies that the Libraries are in compliance. See the social media accessibility guidelines.
Springshare, the vendor for our chat platform is working toward WCAG 2.1 with VPATs, and currently states they comply for all LibApps products to WCAG 2.2 Level AA.