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First Accessibility Compliant Electronic Laboratory Notebook

Author: LabArchives
Published: 2016/02/23

Contents: Synopsis - Introduction - Main - Related Publications

Synopsis: LabArchives is the first Electronic Laboratory Notebook to announce compliance with major accessibility standards.

Introduction

LabArchives(R) the leading electronic laboratory notebook (ELN), today announced compliance with major accessibility standards. LabArchives products are in use by more than than 100,000 scientists and science students users to store, organize, share, and publish their laboratory data.

Main Content

LabArchives Professional and Classroom editions have been enhanced to comply with the following Web accessibility standards and regulations:

In addition to the specific accessibility standards above, the LabArchives platform is built to support a wide range of browsers and devices in use by researchers. In particular,LabArchives has utilized features of HTML5 and WIA-ARIA to provide additional support for LabArchives users of assistive technology.

WAI-ARIA (Web Accessibility Initiative - Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite) defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities. The result is LabArchives is the only widely distributed ELN with accessibility enabled capabilities.

Due to LabArchives ever growing scope and functionality, this will be an ongoing effort.

LabArchives

LabArchives is a cloud-based software application (Software-as-a-Service) which replaces the traditional paper notebook in professional research labs and higher education laboratory courses.

The LabArchives ELN (Electronic Lab Notebook) solution is used by more than 100,000 scientists and professors, including Nobel laureates, to store, organize, share, and publish their laboratory data. It is the only Internet2 approved ELN and the only ELN which meets most Accessibility standards.

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