Improving accessibility in all areas of our work is fundamental to our ambition to create more just and equitable scholarly communications.ย In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we here at Humanities Commons wanted to let you know about some of the work weโre doing behind the scenes to both improve accessibility for site users and to learn and grow as a team. Here are four ways we are putting our commitment into action:
Weโre excited to share with you more in each of these areas as we continue to meet and grow as a team. And, of course, weโd love to hear from you if you have ways that youโd like to see our site improve!
We are excited to announce weโve made a recent update to our system that will allow for increased connectivity between your digital scholarly portfolios. Itโs now possible for all users to add an ORCID ID as a login method when accessing Humanities Commons. ORCID is a non-profit organization that allows users to share their research and publications across many platforms, and its unique digital identifier is widely used by scholars, researchers, and institutions. By adding ORCID as a login method for the Commons, we hope to make it simpler for our users to access the Commons through a trusted provider.
If you already have an ORCID ID, it can be easily linked to your Commons profile by following our guide for adding a new login method. Be sure to choose โAuthorize accessโ when prompted. If you do not have an ORCID ID and are interested in creating one, you can register during the account linking process. Authorizing ORCID access on the Commons will only update your login method. No other changes will be made to your account or profile, and there will not be other data shared between ORCID and the Commons.ย
Along with integrating ORCID, weโve also made the decision to remove Twitter as a login method on the Commons. Due to the current instability of Twitter, our users who have Twitter as their primary method of login may not be able to access their Commons accounts at some point very soon. Therefore, we recommend adding an additional login method as soon as possible. Officially, we plan to close Twitter log in on February 28th, but we encourage changing to a different login method before this date by following the steps linked above. Contact us at [email protected] if you have questions.ย