[LIBRARYDIR] [EXTERNAL]Re: [ICOLC] RE: ADA Title II regulations - consortial approaches?

Monica Olsson molsson at sbctc.edu
Tue Mar 18 11:46:02 PDT 2025 

Thank you, for sharing, Jeannie. I like the idea of creating a central area to store resources.

Did the Council identify an accessibility goal for its work plan? I am unclear where we left off in our conversations about EMMA and the LAA database advocacy.




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Sharing because I think this gives us even more to go on as we work on library resource accessibility. I'll work with the eTeam on putting together a place to store resources like these 🙂

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Some perspectives on accessibility of library resources from the ICOLC list:



From: icolc at lyrasislists.org <icolc at lyrasislists.org> On Behalf Of Claire Leverett
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Hi Genya and all,

I appreciate this conversation as well. At NC LIVE we performed accessibility audits of all of our resources in 2022 and 2024, and were able to work with our vendors to resolve most issues. We've listed our audit results and vendor responses on our website<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.nclive.org/about/terms-of-use__;!!CVJAgw2XxpAa!nvjN7E-FbdfXl89yByj2uOTx6VecDvbMVCXC-_7muZ7aJnzPvsrY3GVx95Bz11S85h08OJJ6dOgsawDbym4$>. As part of this process, we were able to add accessibility language to all of our licenses that hold our vendors to the WCAG 2.1 AA level compliance. This past summer, I emailed all of our vendors giving them a heads up about the DOJ ADA Title II ruling, the timeline, and the importance of this compliance to our libraries. I've been keeping track of the vendors that I have heard back from, and most are aware of the ruling and are working toward compliance in the requested time frame.



In terms of member library support, we've been discussing offering training that will help our libraries have the tools and information they need to complete this accessibility work for their local licensed resources and web content. We're currently planning a webinar for the spring. It was helpful to see the documentation that Orbis Cascade Alliance has put together and I can see that being useful to share with libraries as well.



Best,

Claire



On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM Robert Van Rennes <RVanRennes at crl.edu<mailto:RVanRennes at crl.edu>> wrote:

Hi Genya,



Thank you for starting this conversation about the new ADA Title II requirements. CRL and NERL have already received messages from some member institutions indicating that they may not be able to renew resources in 2026 if they aren’t compliant with the WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility requirements. We have some resources that renew on the fiscal year starting in July so institutions may want to know in May or June if the subscribed resources are compliant, or expect to be compliant, by April of 2026 before making their renewal decisions.  For resources renewing on the calendar year, we will need to know of the publisher’s accessibility compliance by the end of the renewal season this fall.



My approach at CRL/NERL has been to review the accessibility clauses in our licenses for WCAG 2.1 AA compliance.  For those licenses that have accessibility clauses that are not stating the resource is WCAG 2.1 AA compliant, I am contacting the publisher and suggesting language and an amendment to address the deficiencies. If they are unable to comply with that request, I’m asking them to provide a roadmap, preferably in an updated VPAT, for when they expect to be compliant with the new requirements.



I am hoping that others in the community are contacting publishers as well so that we can collectively pressure them to make prompt changes. I am grateful that the European Accessibility Act (EAA) deadline is this summer and many needed accessibility changes are already underway.



All the best,



Rob



Robert Van Rennes

Licensing Librarian

Center for Research Libraries

6050 S. Kenwood Ave. • Chicago, IL 60637 • USA

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Subject: [ICOLC] ADA Title II regulations - consortial approaches?



Dear ICOLC,

I’m writing to see how you all are approaching the upcoming Title II accessibility guidelines and how you are supporting your member libraries in preparing. Beyond the great work of the Library Accessibility Alliance in reviewing products, and the excellent “ADA Title II regulations: implications for libraries” paper released by ARL, are there other resources and/or projects you all are following? Resource accessibility assessments you have completed?  Approaches to ensuring currency of accessibility reviews/vpat/reports? We very much do not want to duplicate work that has already been done and would love to collaborate with any groups you all have formed to ensure Virginia’s approach is consistent with other statewide approaches, and so that we do not duplicate efforts across ICOLC.

Thanks in advance.



Genya





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