Digital Humanities Projects

Education Level	Research Domain	URL	Project Name	Project Institution	Project Topic	Tags	Wave Report	Visual	Auditory	Fine Motor	Cognitive	Description
Undergraduate, Graduate, & Post-Graduate	General; Multidisciplinary	http://muse.jhu.edu	Project Muse	Johns Hopkins University Press	Multidisciplinary scholarly articles and book chapters	html, pdf, accessible, navigation	4 Errors; 19 Alerts	HTML and PDF is accessible to screenreaders, but missing alternative text and form labels hinders navigation	No audible content	At least some keyboard navigation	Pdf reproduces image of printed page; html makes greater use of white space but organizes text as in printed page	Multidisciplinary electronic data base of scholarly articles and book chapters: currently “356,828 articles and 807,376 chapters by 248 publishers”
Graduate and Post-Graduate	English Literature	http://lostplays.org	Lost Plays Database	Wiki Development at the University of Melbourne	Lost Early Modern English Plays		2 Errors; 19 Alerts	Accessible to screenreaders; some empty links, missing headings,AcccessKeys, and problematic alternative texts hinder navigation.	No audible content	AccessKeys & missing headings hinder navigation.	Entries are organized and formatted consistently, enhancing eas of comprehension and use.	“The Lost Plays Database is a wiki-style forum for scholars to share information about lost plays in England, 1580-1642”
Graduate and Post-Graduate	American Literature	http://mel.hofstra.edu/	Melville Electronic Library	Hofstra University	Texts, Sources, and Adaptations of Herman Melville's writing		1 Error; 2 Alerts	HTML accessible to screen-reading software; Missing document language; no heading structure; flash problems on gallery and manuscript pages	Video explanations of Textlab are closed captioned enhancing auditory accessibility.	Minimal use of headings creates navigation challenges.	Some potential confusiong regarding relationshp between horizontal and vertical menus on home page; minimal use of subheadings could create compehension challenges	“The Melville Electronic Library (MEL) will consist of several interconnected “rooms” and “studios” in which users will find the different kinds of materials and services to help them conduct their Melville-related research.” Those rooms include: Editions, Manuscripts, Sources, Criticism, Gallery, Adpataionss, and Biography.
Graduate and Post-Graduate	General; Multidisciplinary	http://web.b.ebscohost.com	EBSCO Ebook Collection	EBSCO Host	Multidisciplinary ebooks, including academic monographs	ebook, pdf, navigation	15 Errors; 27 Alerts	PDF is accessible to screereaders; however, empty links and AccessKeys hinder navigation.	No audible content, except video tutorials (without obvious captioning)	Empty links & AccessKeys hinder navigation.	Principal content reproduces image from printed page and consequentlyuse of white space and organization of page varies form book to book.	Ebook collection includes “hundreds of thousands of titles…across all major subject areas,” including extensive holdings in academic monographs.
Undergraduate and Graduate	Literature	http://go.galegroup.com	Dictionary of Literary Biography	Gale Group	Literary Biography	literature, biography, flash, inaccessible	15 Errors 256 Alerts	Principal content is in flash and hence inaccessible to screen-reading software.	no audible content	Empty links & missing (first level) heading impede keyboard navigation	Principal content reproduces image from printed page and consequently makes limited use of white space.	Signed essays written by scholars provide essential context for understanding the careers and writings of more than 12,000 authors from all time periods and from all parts of the world.