Not to be too nitpicky, but the ADA does not contain web accessibility standards. Most likely, you meant that Scalar is no longer meeting WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) 2 AA conformance. WCAG 2.1 AA is the most recent version of these guidelines, but in the USA at least, the only legal requirements is that Section 508 requires WCAG 2.0 AA conformance.
Also, was Scalar even conformant before? Most big data viz software in my experience tends not to be.
Katherine “Kate” Deibel, PhD (she/her)
Systems Librarian
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
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From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of RD B
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I will find out more and get back to everyone. Sorry for the vague alarming mail. I’ll get something more concrete and reply soon.
David.
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> On Jan 19, 2023, at 10:08 AM, Nicole Scalessa <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Could you share any documentation regarding why it is no longer ADA
> compliant? Or was this surmised during in-house testing? What are the
> dev areas you want to focus on? Have you contacted the Alliance for
> Networking Visual Culture <https://scalar.me/anvc/scalar/> to see what their plans are?
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> Best,
> Nicole
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>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 9:23 AM RD B <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Ahoy all,
>>
>> At Case Western we are using Scalar in various scenarios, but it is
>> no longer ADA compliant and we are wondering about how others are
>> dealing with this. Are you just moving on to other platforms? Using
>> dev time to update the application? Any other solutions? We're
>> considering using dev time to improve Scalar, but wanted to see what
>> everyone else in the Libraryverse was thinking.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> David
>>
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