Accessibility at JSTOR: From box‐checking to a more inclusive and sustainable future

Abstract

Key points

• Testing for accessibility after extensive changes to a website and addressing them as technical debt is unsustainable in the long term.

• To stay modern and efficient, providers of digital content to academic institutions should build accessibility into development.

• For JSTOR, working with participating institutions to understand their concerns was essential to reaching WCAG 2.0 AA conformance.

• With Artstor recently joining ITHAKA, we face the challenge of making a visual archive accessible.