The Digital Accessibility Handbook for Libraries

Abstract

The Digital Accessibility Handbook for Libraries is a comprehensive how-to guide on making libraries
more user-friendly for patrons with disabilities. The intended audience is librarians, library students,
and other library professionals beginning their accessibility work. Many of the insights related in this
text would be helpful to professionals in institutions working to design new spaces or services for their
constituency. Institutions embarking on usability testing of their physical and online spaces would also
benefit from the insights in the Handbook, especially chapter 7. Although the overt focus of the book is
on patrons with disabilities, the authors do an excellent job of establishing that accessibility benefits all
patrons: “Go beyond