[Publib] external tools and ADA compliance

[Miriam Bobkoff]

Hi, Elizabeth,

You wrote:
>    We were interested in using Flickr and YouTube to promote our 
> programs, but we were recently evaluated by the Justice Dept. for 
> ADA compliance.
>    We were lead to believe from that interaction that not only 
> should our page be ADA compliant, but that our library information 
> should be at compliant pages and that they did not meet the 
> standards we were expected to meet.

I am not presently in a public library, so have no current experience 
to offer you. But hope you will post more about your situation. 
Because I'm not understanding what you said at all. The idea that the 
Justice Department singled out Kanawha County Public Library for 
evaluation is really indigestible. Why did they?

Anyway, with or without using Flickr, photographs no matter how 
extensively tagged and described, are only in a remote sense 
compliant. There must be some way to deal with it.

For what it's worth, I am presently at the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribal 
Library, where I have set us up for now with a catalog on 
LibraryThing, and with a web page on blogger which pulls in a slide 
show from Flickr. Without what you call 'external tools', we'd have 
no web presence at all...

Miriam Bobkoff
Port Angeles, WA


At 06:28 AM 12/1/2008, you wrote:
>Hi
>    We were interested in using Flickr and YouTube to promote our 
> programs, but we were recently evaluated by the Justice Dept. for 
> ADA compliance.
>    We were lead to believe from that interaction that not only 
> should our page be ADA compliant, but that our library information 
> should be at compliant pages and that they did not meet the 
> standards we were expected to meet.
>   How have other libraries dealt with the ADA issue related to 
> using external tools?  Thanks
>
>Elizabeth
>
>--
>Elizabeth Fraser
>Reference Services Head
>123 Capitol St
>Charleston WV 25301