Accessibility

• Knowledge Commons POSI Audit 2026

  

  Knowledge Commons committed, in 2025, to the adoption of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure. To that end, we’ve completed a new annual audit to determine the degree to which our operations are now in alignment with POSI version 2.0. We will continue to update this information as we make progress toward our goals. We…

• KCWorks on WP Plugin Launches on Knowledge Commons

  The KCWorks on WP plugin is now available on Knowledge Commons! This block-based plugin makes it easy to embed citations from the KCWorks repository directly on your WordPress pages, whether you are using the KCSites platform or a self-hosted WordPress installation. KCWorks is an enterprise-grade repository for academic research, collaboration tools, and publishing support for…

• Global Accessibility Awareness Day Update

  For this year’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we want to highlight some of the behind-the-scenes work that Knowledge Commons has done or is doing to assess and improve our accessibility:  We look forward to continuing to improve the KC experience and create accessible ways to connect, create, share, and experiment.

• On Accessibility and Security

  In keeping with our commitment to be a platform for everyone and a good partner to both our current organizational members and those who wish to join us, the Knowledge Commons team recently completed two important reports: the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) and the Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit (HECVAT). Taken together these…