RE: diglib: question

["JQ Johnson" <jqj@darkwing.uoregon.edu>]

>Does the legal responsibility to make materials accessible extend to
>individual works in the collection? Do we have to optimize
>accessibility or simply enable?

I believe that the legal responsibility DOES apply to print works, but
that there's a strong "reasonableness" test here.

An important note is that the ADA applies to all disabilities, not just
visual ones.  I remember at my first job at Stanford having a student who
was alergic to paper; we had to take special steps -- mostly by providing
an assistant to handle the books he needed for him -- to make sure that he
had access to the appropriate resources (this was pre-ADA, but that didn't
mean we didn't try to help).