This policy specifies ETSU’s strategies and commitment to ensuring that all public-facing, ETSU-affiliated digital content, including videos, social media content, presentations, documents, and webpages, are accessible to individuals with diverse abilities.
Sherrod Library and Archives of Appalachia recommend Digital Commons@ETSU (https://dc.etsu.edu/) for documents that need to be preserved and publicly shared such as minutes/agendas, newsletters/magazines, reports, etc. This online archive is public-facing and ETSU-affiliated and may include documents that do not follow current accessibility standards given the age of the documents. For example, we have born-digital theses/dissertations created ~20 years ago and born-digital minutes/agendas created ~7 years ago.
Please ensure that the policy does not affect us from archiving born-digital materials in Digital Commons@ETSU. Accessibility is very important but we need to have an exception for archival purposes.