accessibility

• 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…

• WordPress 6.8.1 and New Themes

  Last week, Knowledge Commons upgraded our WordPress instance to version 6.8.1. This update brings a range of exciting new features and enhancements that offer a smoother, more powerful experience to user sites. Below, you’ll find a selection of the latest tools and options you can start using on your site. For more details, be sure…

• 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.

• Standing by our Principles

  Last week, my colleague Bonnie posted about our work to take stock of our progress toward accessibility and to hold ourselves accountable for doing more through an honest reckoning with the VPAT. We’re also working to ensure that we hold ourselves to our other values as well, including openness: we want to provide an open-source,…

• 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…

• Exploring Accessibility and Extended Reality at CES2024

  This post does not represent the views or opinions of Humanities Commons or Michigan State University. Additionally, mention of products, services, individuals, or companies within this post do not indicate support or preference.  Written by Stephanie E. Vasko, User Experience Researcher for Humanities Commons As a Senior User Experience (UX) Researcher in Mesh Research and the…

• Celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day

  Improving accessibility in all areas of our work is fundamental to our ambition to create more just and equitable scholarly communications.  In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we here at Humanities Commons wanted to let you know about some of the work we’re doing behind the scenes to both improve accessibility for site users…