Accessible Pagination in OPAC

Can we please have some tweaks to the pagination in the OPAC? The images are really hard to decipher and being full color with extraneous details, they don't read visually as icons. They are difficult for our patrons to understand visually, and the HTML isn't accessible, which violates many of our states' policies on ADA compliance.

Could we follow accessible standards for pagination? This digital.gov site has a good quick overview of what that looks like:  designsystem.digital.gov/components/pagination/

If we can't update the actual images right this moment, can we do a stopgap measure of adding link titles so that when users mouse over the images they will get something helpful on their screen? And wrap the pagination in the <nav> element so screenreaders can recognize it?

We are looking at this for an internal site we are creating outside of KLAS. Our Product Owner provided the following blog. Might also be helpful for developers.

A Quick Primer on Accessible Pagination by Karl Groves

Potentially a "quick" option would be to use a similar implementation that the Web Order Search uses for the IRCs. That has a Top and Bottom navigation with links and labels instead of the images. If that works something that Keystone already has working.  

 

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I know we have some AT and general accessibility fixes and improvements in the works for the OPAC, including some Navigation role labels.
I'll be bringing this to development to see if we can work on those pagination buttons in the next round.