In the past few years, I have become increasingly aware of how inaccessible the physical and digital worlds are. I recognized the need to learn more, both independently and in formal venues. I have just recently finished the certificate and hope to post more accessible artifacts to this page soon.
Education & Certifications
- Certificate of Professional Development in Information Accessibility Design and Policy from the University of Illinois, May 2025
- Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC) from the International Association of Accessibility Professionals, March 2025
Projects
Digital Accessibility Workshops
I have been co-teaching modular workshops for various groups of staff and faculty at Bucknell since fall of 2022. Topics include basics such as headings, color contrast, and alt text. I worked with my collaborator, Claire Cahoon, to create short videos (with captions) for each topic for asynchronous learning, which she posted in the campus knowledgebase. Here is one example:
Accessible Website
For my certificate program, we had to create a simple but fully accessible and responsive portfolio website. The HTML and CSS are completely hand-scripted using the WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) and best practices we learned in the program. The contact page is not actually functional as the coding for such a form was outside of the scope of the class, but it does have functional error messages if any field is skipped.
Accessible Interactive Tutorial (Work in Progress)
One of the challenges of web accessibility is that the standards are created for websites, which require some manual translation for other digital objects such as interactive tutorials. I am in the process of updating my information synthesis tutorial to be more accessible. As of May 2025, this is still a work in progress. I originally designed and built this tutorial with some accessibility in mind, but the need for retrofitting has been greater than I anticipated. The current status of my accessible synthesis tutorial draft includes the following upgrades:
- A text-only, self-paced experience option that will not conflict with screen readers
- Fully keyboard accessible with logical focus order for all slides, although currently the experience for the practical strategies slide is less than ideal
- Added player with accessibility features enabled
- Improved color contrast on interactive items
Publication
- Broussard, M. S. (2024). Dead Collections: Exploring chronic illness in academic libraries through the metaphor of vampires. Partnership, 19(2), https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/partnership/2024-v19-n2-partnership09881/1116522ar.pdf
- Broussard, M. S. (2023). Burnout and chronic illness in academic libraries. In C. Holm, A. Guimaraes, & N. Marcano (Eds.), Academic Librarian Burnout: Causes & Responses (pp. 15-26). Association of College and Research Libraries.
Professional Memberships
- International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP), since January 2025
Leave a Reply