Document Type
Editorial
Publication Title
Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication
Publisher
Pacific University Libraries
Publication Date
9-2015
Volume
3
Issue
2
Disciplines
Library and Information Science
Abstract
In 2012 “the Alliance for Disability and Students at the University of Montana—ADSUM —filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education alleging [that] students … who have disabilities face discrimination at UM” (Szpaller, 2012, para. 4). Two years later, the President of the University of Montana (UM) signed a resolution agreement with the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (UM/OCR resolution agreement, 2014). This resolution agreement focuses heavily on the accessibility of electronic and information technology for individuals with disabilities and outlines action strategies for remediating all UM websites, learning management systems, library services, and classrooms. This agreement represents a trend towards stricter enforcement of accessibility legislation in the higher education arena (Grossman, 2014).
DOI
10.7710/2162-3309.1223
Rights
© 2015 Walker & Keenan.
Creative Commons License
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Recommended Citation
Walker, W., & Keenan, T. (2015). Going Beyond Availability: Truly Accessible Research Data. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 3(2), eP1223. http://dx.doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.1223