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Disability Laws and Libraries
Current Awareness
Law
- Mary Minow, Disability Accommodations for the Public March 20, 2003 - gives ADA building accessibility standards for libraries also pdf
- Texas Technology Access Project, Legal Issues and Library Access for Persons with Disabilities - This doesn't actually give library examples, but it is a succinct set of links to the ADA Technical Manuals and the ADA Titles I-IV
Cases and legal letters
- Office for Civil Rights Below are letters on libraries and disability access
- Web pages and persons with visual disabilities 1996 (Letter by Assistant Attorney General Deval L. Patrick to Senator Tom Harkin)
- Accessible written material in libraries 1996
- Do bookmobiles need wheelchair lifts? 1993
- Are public libraries covered under Title II or Title III of the ADA? 1992
Guidelines, articles and links concerning libraries and disability access
- American Library Association, Roads to Learning, Information about learning disabilities and public libraries
- DRM guide to disability resources for librarians
- EASI and libraries Related to access to information by people with disabilities chaired by Dr. Norman Coombs
- Paul T. Jaeger, J.D., Section 508 Goes to the Library: Complying with Federal Legal Standards to Produce Accessible Electronic and Information Technology in Libraries 2002
- Barbara Mates, Adaptive Technology for the Internet: Making Electronic Resources Accessible to All - the online version 2000
- Mary Minow, Disability Accommodations for the Public - Infopeople webcast March 20, 2003
- Mary Minow, Does Your Library's Web Page Violate the Americans with Disabilities Act? April 1999
Tools
- Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) Bobby A web-based public service from which analyzes Web pages for accessibility.
- University of Wisconsin -- Stevens Point, Accessible Web Page Design: Resources
Even non-techies can use the Bobby service to see if a web page is accessible.