[NFB-Science] Accessible Citation Managers

[Currin, Kevin]

Hi Kennedy,
I use zotero with NVDA, and while it is not fully accessible, it is a significant improvement to manually preparing the citations. It has a lot of nice features. For example, there is an add-on that allows you to add a citation from pubMed (if you are doing medical research) to your library directly from google chrome. There are probably other add-ons for other search databases.

Many parts are accessible, such as selecting the citation style you want and browsing your library of references. Adding citations to a document is partially accessible. I have a work-around that I use for microsoft that I published to the Access STEM listserv a while back that I have pasted below:
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However, I do have advice regarding adding citations in word. As you say, the box is very inaccessible. However, I have found that if you click the "Add/Edit Citation  Button"  and then start typing part of the title of the citation you want, and then pause, a suggested citation will pop up, which NVDA reads once. You can't access this with the arrow keys, so you will have to restart the whole process if you missed the title that was read. Assuming that is the citation you want, you can then hit tab twice and hit enter to insert the citation. However, this doesn't work well when many articles share similar words in their titles (and many do). In this case, NVDA will only read the first suggestion, not the entire list of suggested articles. So overall, it is best to paste the entire article title of the citation you want into this box and then hit tab twice and then enter to insert the citation. It is very annoying, but most reference managers are very annoying for screenreaders unfortunately.

TLDR, I would recommend pasting the full title of the article in the box and then tabbing twice and hitting enter.
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Thanks,

Kevin

Kevin Currin, PhD
Research Associate, Lab of Karen Mohlke
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill


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Subject: [NFB-Science] Accessible Citation Managers

Hello, friends!

I am beginning to do a lot of searching through scientific literature as
part of my graduate work, and I am quickly realizing that I am going to
need to start using a citation manager to keep track of everything! Most
people at my school use Zotero, but I have heard this program isn't as
accessible. For context, I am using a PC, running Windows 10 and the most
current version of JAWS. However, I do also have NVDA  installed, so I
would be open to learning a citation manager that works with  this screen
reader as well. Is Zotero accessible, or have you all found a more
accessible alternative?

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide!

Sincerely,
Kennedy
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