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LibGuide Car Wash Sandbox

This guide has workshop materials and activities from the annual LibGuides Skill Refresh Workshop (the LibGuide Car Wash).

Preparing Your Guides for Accessibility Crawl

Implications of the accessibility web crawl

It is likely that campus will implement an accessibility audit of all UWM webpages. We do not have details about how and when this web crawl exercise will be take place, but we should get more details during the Fall term. Here is what we do know:

  • We have over 300 published LibGuides that all need to be evaluated and remediated for accessibility
  • Because we have a large collection of LibGuides, the library will have thousands more pages to review and remediate compared to other campus units
  • We share responsibility for the compliance of our web content because there are so many different webpage and LibGuide editors. It may not be challenging to triage accessibility remediation tasks to the correct content owners depending on how the web crawl report is packaged. 

Before the crawl (this summer)

  1. Review your the last 2 years of use data for the published LibGuides you own. 
    1. Click on 'Statistics'
    2. Then choose the 'Guides' tab from the options at the top of the page
    3. Set the 'Statuses' drop-down menu to "Published"
    4. Set the 'All Guides' drop-down menu to '*All My Guides*'
    5. Set the date range to Sept 2023 through today's date
    6. Click the blue 'Run Report' button
    7. Use the 'Export All Records' menu above the right corner of your results to view the data as an excel document
  2. Use this data to make choices about which of your guides are worth your time to remediate and maintain
  3. Unpublish any course guides for classes that are not listed in the UWM Schedule of classes for the Fall 2025 term
  4. Unpublish any guides that do not serve a distinct purpose or have an undefined audience

Questions to Consider While Reviewing Guides

Guiding Questions

  • How do I use LibGuides to support my work?
  • Do all my guides have a demonstrated purpose?
    • Class being offered in the Fall
    • Supporting reference
    • High traffic
  • How much time can I devote realistically for reviewing, maintaining, and remediate my guides for accessibility?
    • Before the Fall Semester
    • During the Fall Semester
    • Before April, 2026?

UW System Accessibility Policy

Campus & UW System Policy and Resources