Infrastructure Is People: How Libraries Are Redefining Digital Accessibility from the Inside Out

Libraries are increasingly positioned as the hub of institutional digital accessibility work—but infrastructure without investment in people is merely compliance theater. This session traces how the University of Virginia Library is building a distributed accessibility ecosystem anchored not in tools and technical standards, but in the humans who sustain them. Using the UVA Library Digital Accessibility Working Group (DAWG) as a case study, participants will explore what it looks like to treat training and capacity building as strategic decisions, not afterthoughts, leaving with a framework for building sustainable accessibility infrastructure.

Individuals will be able to submit questions for the speaker in advance during the registration process.

Human Generated Real-Time Captioning will be provided for this session.