Jul
28AJAX Design Enhancements to Georgetown Research Guides

On the Georgetown Law Library website, we have a pretty big collection of research guides, which we've recently expanded to include treatise finder resources, as well as an expanding list of tutorials. In order to make it easier to cross-reference the guides, we've added a new expandable box showing related resources. Here are two images showing related resources for our Accounting Research Guide.

To create the expandable boxes, we used elements of the Adobe Spry JavaScript library. Specifically, it uses the accordion widget. In our implementation, we use a folder icon with an arror to indicate that there's more information under that heading. At it's heart, this is just a fancy stylized list, so it should display fine with JavaScript turned off, and there should be no reason screen readers can't interact with this added feature.

This summer, we're enhancing our research guides and treatise finder resources in other ways, so stay tuned for other enhancements.