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Consider embedding Accessibility Metadata Project terms in public catalog

Bug #1735857 reported by Jane Sandberg on 2017-12-01

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The Accessibility Metadata Project has a lot of great terms to describe accessibility features and barriers: http://www.a11ymetadata.org/the-specification/

An example of some accessibility metadata for a large type book is here: http://www.a11ymetadata.org/the-specification/examples/

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Galen Charlton (gmc) wrote on 2023-06-05:

Noting that the successor to the Accessibility Metadata Project project is now hosted by the W3: https://www.w3.org/community/a11y-discov-vocab/

While the group's homepage a W3 doesn't show any signs of activity since November 2021, their GitHub repo does: https://github.com/w3c/a11y-discov-vocab. There's also a published final community group report here: https://www.w3.org/community/reports/a11y-discov-vocab/CG-FINAL-vocabulary-20230330/

However, it is not clear to me whether whether there are any tools actually using this vocabulary, although this presentation (https://gla.georgialibraries.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/2022-03-23_Fox-Norris_Carterette_Slides_update.pdf) by David Norris and Violet Fox suggests that somebody is advocating for its use in MARC 341 fields.

I wonder if in the short term it would be a better use of time to look into building displays and indexing around the 341 field.

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