E-Texts for All (Even Lucy): Ebooks and Accessibility

Autor/in	Booth, Char
Titel	E-Texts for All (Even Lucy): Ebooks and Accessibility
Quelle	In: Library Journal, 135 (2010) 13, S.26-27 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0363-0277
Schlagwörter	Disabilities; Advocacy; Public Sector; Librarians; Books; Electronic Publishing; Computer Literacy; Media Literacy; Federal Legislation; Visual Impairments; Web Sites; Higher Education; Blindness; Usability; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Handicap; Behinderung; Sozialanwaltschaft; Öffentlicher Sektor; Librarian; Bibliothekar; Bibliothekarin; Book; Buch; Monographie; Monografie; Elektronisches Publizieren; Computerkenntnisse; Media skills; Medie competence; Medienkompetenz; Bundesrecht; Visual handicap; Sehbehinderung; Web-Design; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Blindheit; Kalifornien
Abstract	If digital literacy is exploding, the visually disabled are taking the shrapnel. The author wagers that most librarians consider themselves committed to accessibility and make individual and organizational efforts to comply with (and often exceed) the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in their buildings and the Rehabilitation Act Section 508 standards on their websites. Over the past year, the author has been working closely with Lucy Greco, a colleague and disability advocate at the University of California-Berkeley (UC-B). Lucy, who has been blind from birth, has transformed the author's understanding of the ebook wars, including the realization that librarians have the responsibility to embrace their advocacy role in shaping its outcome. As one of the few public sector agencies charged with recognizing the access rights of all, libraries must collectively examine how they can steer the e-text trajectory--from ebooks to ejournals to any other format--in a more universally usable direction. By making access-positive decisions and partnering with the Lucys of the world, librarians can resist ereading inaccessibility and promote universal usability. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10