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Annual Wintle Webinar: Introduction to Website Accessibility (Free)

  • 1.  Annual Wintle Webinar: Introduction to Website Accessibility (Free)

    Posted Sep 24, 2021 04:20 PM

    Good afternoon,

     

    Please consider joining us next week Wednesday, September 29 for the 2021 Wintle Webinar. The webinar is free, but requires prior registration via the SLIS Professional Development Webinar Series website.

     

    Introduction to Website Accessibility

    Laura Solomon

    Library Services Manager at the Ohio Public Library Information Network

     

    Webinar free of charge, provided by the Mary Jack Wintle Education Fund

    Are you concerned that your library's website isn't meeting accessibility standards? If not, you should be - lawsuits concerning website accessibility failures are increasing, and libraries do not have immunity. Gain an understanding of which guidelines are used to measure website accessibility in the United States, and how to begin to evaluate your own library's site for potential issues. We'll also discuss some common pitfalls and things to avoid.

     

    Meet Jackie Wintle

    Mary Jack "Jackie" Wintle has led a peripatetic life. Born in Kansas, her childhood was spent moving throughout the East and West coast following the Navy ships on which her father was stationed. Before coming to LSU, where she served as editor of the Gumbo yearbook among other things, she completed her elementary and high school education in Shreveport.

     

    After graduation in 1956, Wintle headed to New Haven, Connecticut for an MA in Teaching at Yale University and taught 10th grade English.  Deciding that teaching was not for her, she returned to Shreveport and ultimately to LSU for an MS in Library Science in 1962.  From there, she went to Washington, DC where she began as a Special Recruit at the Library of Congress and carved a 30-year career.

     

    According to Director of the CHSE School of Library & Information Science Beth Paskoff, Wintle had an extraordinary career at the Library of Congress. She worked for the National Library Service for the blind and physically handicapped. This federal agency is responsible for providing resources to more than 700,000 people in the United States every year.

     

    She moved from her Maryland home in the DC suburbs to the mountains of western North Carolina in 2006 and then to Austin, Texas in 2013 to join her husband, Jim Allen, a good friend from library school days.  She's adopted the motto "bloom where you're planted."

     

    In 1958, Wintle joined the Shreveport Junior League and learned to transcribe braille as her volunteer activity.  This ultimately led to her curiosity about and subsequent employment with the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) at the Library of Congress. She enjoyed progressively responsible positions at the Library of Congress and retired as Director of Educational Programs, tying together her teaching and library background.

     

    Wintle believes in the concept of "Noblesse Oblige" and in sharing her talents and assets with others.  She has coordinated Sunday school classes, served two active terms on the University Park Town Council and has participated in other civic activities.

     

    In 2006, Wintle established an endowment at the School of Library and Information Science in support of her passions and life's work. The Mary Jack Wintle Education Fund makes it possible for SLIS to support students with disabilities, provide courses about providing library services to people with disabilities and to provide materials for the LSU libraries to support their collection in this subject area.

     

    Cordially,

    Edward Benoit III, Ph.D. (He/Him)
    Associate Director & Associate Professor
    School of Library & Information Science
    Louisiana State University 269 Coates Hall, Baton Rouge, LA  70803
    office 225-578-1469 | fax 225-578-4581
    ebenoit@lsu.edu | lsu.edu | slis.lsu.edu



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    Edward Benoit III, Ph.D.
    Associate Director & Associate Professor
    School of Library & Information Science
    Louisiana State University 269 Coates Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
    office 225-578-1469 | fax 225-578-4581
    ebenoit@lsu.edu | lsu.edu | slis.lsu.edu
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