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From: ilana kingsley
Date: Nov 6, 2003 11:52AM

Greetings,
I've recently started a new job as a Web librarian in
a small-mid-size university. I've been trying to
implement web-accessibility policies for the library,
however, a few department heads feel that this is too
costly. All I want to do is make sure that any content
the library produces meets W3C Priority 1 guidelines.
This implementation is for any *new* content and is
not intended for existing content. The problem is, a
specific department produces a lot of audio/video and
they are claiming that they do not have enough
resources or money to make things accessible. They
rationalize that producing some content accessible by
some people is better than not producing any content
at all-- it's better that we have something. Then they
start saying how all of our electronic journal
subscriptions don't meet accessibility guidelines
(most full text journals are in pdf format) and they
start telling me about all the other non-accessible
things in the library.

All I want to do is create a simple policy insuring
that new content is accessible!! They don't seem to
care that they are legally obligated to do this.

Any suggestions on how to deal with this?

Thanks,

I. Newby

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