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Why web accessibility is the new usability
While enabling users with disabilities, web accessibility boosts searchability and even ROI – here’s how By Sandra Millers Younger Posted on 2 June 2014 Updated on 26 November 2019 Lucy Greco wanted to be a physical therapist. She loved the idea of working with athletes, helping them achieve their best possible performances. But a year or so into her university studies, back in the late 1980s, Greco gave up on her dream career.
Making charts accessible for people with visual impairments
Imagine you’re visually impaired and you rely on a screen reader to read text aloud and interpret images for you on your computer. Would you be able to make sense of scientific charts and graphs? Or get any information about what they look like and the information they convey? For many researchers in this position, the answer has been “no” – or in a limited way that is far from ideal. Typically they have to pay a reader or find a volunteer to assist.
9 themes that emerged from our Open Scholarship Initiative #OSI2017 meeting
Elsevier is a proud supporter of the National Science Communication Institute’s Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI), a global collaboration of key stakeholders in scholarly publishing who are working together to improve the scholarly publishing system. Representatives attended the first of 10 planned annual meetings in 2016, and again in 2017.
Oliver Sacks: the patient-focused polymath
Editor’s Note: This month, we have been exploring the theme of “diversity of mind” – through the lens of the renowned animal scientist and autism advocate Temple Grandin, who sheds light on the different kinds of minds science needs, for example, and Elsevier’s accessibility specialists, who work to ensure that our content is accessible to people of all abilities – and disabilities.
The many faces of accessibility
Some of the world’s most effective researchers deal with disabilities that make it difficult or impossible to read text – everything from dyslexia to blindness. But it’s essential they can use the same content as other researchers, easily and without too much delay. That’s why we have colleagues around the world making sure our content is easy to access in a variety of forms.
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