5. User Experience

accessibility, e-resources

• Following this session, participants will be able to identify strategies for acquiring web accessible e-resources,
• Following this session, participants will be able to communicate effectively with vendors about web accessibility concerns,
• Following this session, participants will be able to evaluate e-resources for accessibility compliance,
• Following this session, participants will have an understanding of current issues around accessibility, libraries, and e-resources and possibilities for the library profession moving forward

This session challenges the library community to implement profession-wide change based on proposals in a 2012 Association for Research Libraries (ARL) report on print disabilities.  Participants will learn about the Americans with Disabilities Act, issues specfic to print disabilities and e-resources, and how to take action locally and as a profession.