About
The IIIF Accessibility and Usability Community Group is committed to authoring, collecting, and sharing recommendations for creating accessible and user-friendly IIIF-compliant resources and interfaces. Our mission is to ensure the success and widespread adoption of IIIF tooling. The design of IIIF-compliant resources, tools, and interfaces must be people-focused and meet clearly defined needs. To support these efforts, we actively engage with experts in usability, accessibility, and human-computer interaction, as well as institutions, individuals, and end-users of IIIF tooling. To enhance access to content, this group will advocate for user-centered strategies that encompass all aspects of digitization and IIIF content consumption. Our goal is to improve the discovery, use, and reuse of IIIF resources across institutional and domain silos.
The full charter can be found here.
Goals
- Facilitate conversations, attract attention, create a destination for people to discuss accessibility and usability in the IIIF context
- Collect information from any source about these matters and bring it to the attention to the IIIF community (acting as liaison, disseminator to wider group)
- Explore feasibility of a task force regular usability testing
Organization
Chairs:
- Brittny Lapierre, Canadian Research Knowledge Network
- Matthias Müller-Prove
- Meredith Steinfels, Hood Museum of Art
Communication channels:
- Monthly calls - see IIIF Community Calendar for details
- Virtual meetings announced on the IIIF-Discuss email list
- General discussion on the #accessibility_usability Slack channel