Digital Product Accessibility

We incorporate accessibility best practices and guidelines into our digital design and development processes and aim to meet WCAG 2.1 AA standards.

Our teams are in the process of publishing accessibility statements for all of the digital products that the U-M Library builds or customizes. Look for an Accessibility link at the bottom of the website you're on for specific details.

Accessibility evaluations

Members of the Library IT Accessibility team complete accessibility evaluations to identify violations and warnings in need of remediation. Team members are accessibility specialists, not native screen reader users. The testing environment is typically a Chrome browser, VoiceOver or NVDA screen reader, and keyboard. 

We do visual checks for link and label text, as well as for color contrast. Color contrast analyzers (color pickers) are used to test for compliance. Our evaluations also include automated testing with ARC toolkit, WAVE, Deque axe, and Accessibility Insights. These tools check for WCAG success criteria. 

In addition to our evaluations, we use enterprise scanning software provided by campus ITS for continual maintenance.