Accessibility

ARL Comments on Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is pleased to submit these comments to the US Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, in consideration of its process to propose amendments...
Canadian and US Academic Libraries Celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day by Working Together to Facilitate Access for the Print Disabled

French version of release / Version française du communiqué The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled was...
National Implementations of the Marrakesh Treaty

National Implementations of the Marrakesh Treaty by Countries that have Ratified or Acceded to the Treaty Introduction The World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) adopted the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate...
US Copyright Office Allows Access to E-books for People with Disabilities, but Licenses May Still Restrict Access

Research libraries are committed to making information resources as broadly accessible as possible, regardless of users’ abilities or disabilities, but copyright law has played a role in prohibiting the international...
Research Library Issues 302: Sustaining Open Content and Infrastructure

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Research Library Issues no. 302 (2021): Sustaining Open Content and Infrastructure. Introduction Judy Ruttenberg, Association of Research Libraries Open Persistent Identifiers: The Building...
Podcast: Victoria Owen on Libraries and the Marrakesh Treaty

About the ARL Views Podcast The ARL Views podcast provides deep dives into key issues of interest to the research library community. About This Episode In this episode, Victoria...
If It’s Open, Is It Accessible?

The library and open access (OA) publishing communities have made great strides in making more new scholarship openly available. But have we included readers with vision challenges in our OA...
ARL and CARL Form Joint Task Force on Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Advocacy and Public Policy Committee and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) Policy Committee today announce the launch of a joint ARL/CARL Task...
White Paper Examines Providing Access to Texts in Context of Civil Rights and Copyrights

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the University of Virginia (UVA) Library are pleased to release a white paper, The Law and Accessible Texts: Reconciling Civil Rights and Copyrights,...
The Law and Accessible Texts: Reconciling Civil Rights and Copyrights

On July 22, 2019, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the University of Virginia (UVA) Library released this white paper, The Law and Accessible Texts: Reconciling Civil Rights and...