Accessibility, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion
Disability Pride Month is celebrated each July to honor the achievements, identities, and contributions of people with disabilities. This month is dedicated to promoting visibility, …
A brief introduction to screen readers for authors of digital content.
The American public deserves plain language communication from its government. The benefits of plain language are both tangible and intangible: Plain language gets your message …
Accessibility, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion
Aside from the fact that Colorado law requires it of public entities, it is worth remembering the reasons why it is so important to make everything we do fully accessible.
While the specifics of Colorado’s web accessibility laws are ironed out, Marmot and the State Library have collected some tools and suggestions to help you …
Adult Services, Our Services & Programs
Lorrie Spoering is the Patron Services Readers Advisor at Colorado Talking Book Library . They’ve answered some questions below to help librarians around Colorado learn …
Adult Services, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion
Language translation is not simply the matter of using Google Translate or ad hoc translation from multilingual speakers in your immediate reach. Languages are complex …
Accessibility, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion
House Bill 21-1110 makes it a state civil rights violation for a government agency to exclude people with disabilities from receiving services or benefits because of lack of accessibility.
Colorado State Publications Blog, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion
One of the United States’ most significant pieces of civil rights legislation was signed into law thirty years ago this week, on July 26, 1990. …
Descriptive links are weblinks disguised as descriptive text that is clicked on to go to the place described. For instance, in “Look for books in our …
Alt text, also called “alt tags” or “alt descriptions,” is the text that is read by screen-reading tools to describe images for visually impaired readers. …
Does your website have links to download PDF documents? Do you make a really sweet looking event calendar and upload it to your library website …
Accessibility… sometimes when I talk about accessibility in libraries folks imagine ramps, wide doors and not stocking items on bottom shelves. This is all essential, …
You can download the Legislative Council’s Ballot Information Booklet in both PDF and MP3 formats.