Name: What Gets Preserved When We Remediate: Accessibility as Visual Memory Work
Start: 2026-10-07T10:30:00-0400
End: 2026-10-07T11:00:00-0400

What Gets Preserved When We Remediate: Accessibility as Visual Memory Work

Wednesday October 7, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EDT

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Accessibility remediation is often seen as a technical or compliance-focused process. This paper presents remediation as visual memory work. It involves a series of decisions that influence how visual images, interfaces, and institutional stories are preserved, changed, or hidden over time. Drawing on library web governance, digital systems cleanup, and Title II accessibility projects, this presentation explores how choices about layout, hierarchy, color, navigation, metadata visibility, and alternative text impact how patrons experience institutional knowledge and history. These decisions require weighing historical accuracy, current usability, and ethical responsibility. They raise questions about whose perspectives are prioritized and whose are ignored. By viewing accessibility as a practice of visual literacy and stewardship, this paper sees remediation as not just meeting requirements but as forward-thinking work that shapes how images, interfaces, and institutional stories are remembered, understood, and valued over time.

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Kelly Peter

Assistant Professor, Web & Systems Librarian, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse

Kelly Peter is the Web and Systems Librarian at Murphy Library, University of Wisconsin–La Crosse. With a background spanning IT systems administration and more than fifteen years of library leadership across public and academic libraries, Kelly brings a wide-ranging perspective... Read More →

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