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Viewing the sunrise: iPac 2.0 accessibility

Susan M. Johns (Professor of Library and Information Science, Pittsburg State University, Axe Library, Pittsburg, Kansas, USA. E‐mail: suzyq@mail.pittstate.edu)

Library Hi Tech

ISSN: 0737-8831

Article publication date: 1 June 2002

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Abstract

iPac 2.0, the Web‐based online catalog of epixtech, inc., was scheduled to go into general release for Dynix and Horizon Sunrise customers in the fourth quarter 2001. Previous epixtech Web‐based online catalogs (Java‐ and HTML‐based) presented difficulties for accessibility. This article evaluates the third in a series of iPac products, 2.0, using the following accessibility tools: Bobby, JAWS for Windows, Vischeck Color Blindness Simulator, W3C Validator, and ZoomText. This article attempts to evaluate the accessibility of iPac 2.0 against these five tools, tools that are more traditionally used with standard HTML Web pages than Web‐based online catalogs.

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Johns, S.M. (2002), "Viewing the sunrise: iPac 2.0 accessibility", Library Hi Tech, Vol. 20 No. 2, pp. 148-161. https://doi.org/10.1108/07378830210432516

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