I had not heard of that law. Nice to hear about other states doing this. Still not ADA compliance though, although there are some bills being worked on in the Senate to add digital accessibility to the ADA or at least to the same areas the ADA covers. The Rehabilitation Act, which includes Section 504 and 508, apply mostly to government-related entities.

Katherine “Kate” Deibel, PhD (she/her)
Systems Librarian
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

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Hi Kate,

Unless your library is in Colorado. We have a new law starting July 2024 that requires WCAG 2.1 AA compliance. The law will institute a $3,500 fine attached to each occurrence.

So some of us are scrambling to update our sites.

Peggy

Peggy Shaughnessy
Web Applications Developer
Poudre River Public Library District
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Fort Collins, Colorado 80524
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [CODE4LIB] Scalar and ADA Compliance?

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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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Scalar and ADA Compliance?

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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