Guides: D4D Accessibility Guide: Gallery &amp; Tabbed Boxes

Milestone Overview: Gallery and Tabbed Boxes

Galleries and/or Slides don't auto play (No content autoplays)

LibGuides has a box type called Gallery. Be aware that there are additional settings you’ll need to check to ensure that the gallery is accessible.

Accessibility Best Practices

Any original content you add to a gallery should be accessible (slide decks, image, documents, etc.)
In the gallery box settings the “automatically play” option should be set to off
Be aware of how embedded content behaves on your page.
- Make sure you can control all actions of a media player or slide deck using just your keyboard.
- Nothing should autoplay

NYU Resources

NYU Digital Accessibility How-To Guide: Documents: Google Slides
When creating accessible Google Slides, a factor to keep in mind is the order of elements on an individual slide. For those using a screen reader, it is important that slide elements are placed in the correct order as an audience is meant to read them in much the same was as headings are used on Google or Microsoft Word documents.

LibGuides Help Center Resources

Adding a gallery box to a guide - Help Center
You can create galleries of images, books, databases, guides, and/or LibCal Events using the Gallery box type. It's easy to set up, you can mix and match any of the mentioned content items, and control settings like slide/transition speed, number of slides that appear at once, navigation dots, captions, and more.

The Gallery box was built with accessibility in mind, though (as with most other areas of the system) exactly how accessible it remains largely depends on what's added. For example: the box is accessible via keyboard and screen reader; an Alt Text field is available for all images; the left / right arrows on the box (to denote navigation between slides), dots (also denoting navigation / more slides), and captions do not overlap images.
Configuring a gallery box's settings - Help Center

Tabbed Boxes

Due to inherent difficulties with making "Tabbed" boxes accessible, it is recommended that any content provided within this kind of box in LibGuides be relocated into a "Standard Box."

However, if you need to include Tabbed boxes, please follow the directions on the LibGuides Help Center Resources:

What is a tabbed box?

Project Management Suggestions

Review your organization's style guides (if available) and content to determine if these features are already commonly used.

Reach out to guide authors to understand why they have chosen to use these features.
- You may be able to find more accessible alternatives. Be open to doing some proof of concepts you can present to authors for feedback.
Talk to your system support (admins and developers, if you have them) to identify if there are any improvements that can be made at the system level
Press Springshare about the accessibility issues, sometimes only the vendors can make the fixes

D4D Accessibility Guide