Universal Accessibility Interest Group

  • Private Community
 View Only
last person joined: 3 days ago 

Charge: Offers librarians, support staff, students, and other advocates networking and collaboration opportunities, information sharing and programming to promote accessibility in academic libraries, including web accessibility, assistive technology, reference and instruction for users with disabilities and captioning processes.
Community members can post as a new Discussion or email ALA-acrluaig@ConnectedCommunity.org
Before you post: please note job postings are prohibited on ALA Connect. Please see the Code of Conduct for more information.

  • 1.  VPAT use in Japan? (I already know the answer)

    Posted May 23, 2023 09:51 AM

    Hello everyone,

    I'm getting a bit of pushback to our VPAT request from a Japanese publisher.  They want to know if other Japanese companies provide VPATs for their American institutional customers. I have not personally managed to get a VPAT from the handful of Japanese publishers/vendors that I have contacted, but maybe someone else out there has accomplished this?   I'd love to be able to respond with at least a couple of company names.

    Thanks, and apologies for cross-posting.



    ------------------------------
    Leigh Mosley
    Accessibility Coordinator
    University of TN Libraries
    ------------------------------


  • 2.  RE: VPAT use in Japan? (I already know the answer)

    Posted Jun 01, 2023 01:43 PM

    Hi Leigh,

    I share your pain! The closest I have come to getting a VPAT from a Japanese publisher is this Web Accessibility Policy from NetAdvance. 

    Good luck and please keep us posted if you are successful.



    ------------------------------
    Karen Grondin
    Licensing and Copyright Librarian
    Arizona State University Library
    She/Her/Hers
    ------------------------------

    Original Message