[Athen] Court Cases/decisions re: alternate format production

[Ron]

Thanks all, great resources!

Ron Stewart

On Tuesday, February 3, 2015, Sheryl E. Burgstahler <sherylb at uw.edu> wrote:


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>  On Feb 3, 2015, at 8:02 AM, Terrill Thompson <tft at uw.edu

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>   Sorry I'm late to this conversation. Here's the University of

> Washington's list of Resolution Agreements and Lawsuits:

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> http://www.washington.edu/accessibility/requirements/accessibility-cases-and-settlement-agreements/

>

>  That has a companion page, Legal Cases by Issue, which is essentially a

> summary of lessons learned:

> http://www.washington.edu/accessibility/requirements/legal-cases-by-issue/

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>  Regards,

> Terrill

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> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Paul E. Paire <paire at temple.edu

> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','paire at temple.edu');>> wrote:

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>> This is a work in progress, and is VERY rough at this point, (and I don't

>> have some of the latest cases in here), but you could check

>> http://sites.temple.edu/a11ylawsuits/ as I have downloaded the PDFs or

>> copied the text I could find.  This was really developed for my own

>> personal consumption (so I could track what cases are out there) so let me

>> know if you run into problems with the site or it's content.

>>

>> -Paul

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>> on behalf of Sean Keegan [skeegan at stanford.edu

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>> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:43 PM

>> To: Access Technology Higher Education Network

>> Subject: Re: [Athen] Court Cases/decisions re: alternate format production

>>

>> The ATHEN site has a number of these cases listed (

>> http://athenpro.org/content/legal-news) and I have tried to link to the

>> official documents when possible. That said, some are not public or have

>> been removed in which case I have linked to other websites. I also have

>> included other sites where you could find information about court cases.

>>

>> The AHEAD Legal Database has great information, but you need to be an

>> AHEAD member to access that content. In fact, I would go as far to say that

>> access to that database is a major benefit to becoming an AHEAD member.

>>

>> Take care,

>> Sean

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>> On Jan 22, 2015, at 12:08 PM, "Robert Espero" <roberte at uci.edu

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>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','roberte at uci.edu');>>> wrote:

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>> I was only aware of about half of what both you cited. Are there any

>> links to the CSU Fullerton and Florida St. cases? How about the University

>> of Montana and University of Colorado?

>>

>> Any info would be appreciated!

>>

>> Thanks,

>>

>> Robert Espero

>> Assistant Director, Accessible Technologies

>> Disability Services Center

>> UC Irvine

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>> On Behalf Of Ron

>> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 11:44 AM

>> To: Access Technology Higher Education Network

>> Subject: Re: [Athen] Court Cases/decisions re: alternate format production

>>

>> There are also a series of more recent cases, while they do not speak to

>> alt format in particular they do speak to accessible curricular materials.

>> Louisiana Tech is an interesting case in point. University of Montana, and

>> most recently the University of Colorado but I have not seen a settlement

>> letter on this one yet.

>>

>> Ron Stewart

>>

>>  On Thursday, January 22, 2015, Sean Keegan <skeegan at stanford.edu

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>> skeegan at stanford.edu

>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','skeegan at stanford.edu');>>> wrote:

>> Hi Susan,

>>

>> You can take a look at the list of court cases on the ATHEN site:

>> http://athenpro.org/content/legal-news

>>

>> The CSU Fullerton case, the UC Berkeley case, and the Florida State

>> University case are relevant to alternate format production. Also, although

>> a bit dated, I think the 1996 OCR investigation of the California Community

>> Colleges has some language that is still relevant (i.e., use of the term

>> effective communication).

>>

>> There may be others, but these are the ones that jump to mind with

>> respect to alternate format production.

>>

>> The only other case I can think of that is recent would be the Author's

>> Guild vs. Hathi Trust (

>> https://www.eff.org/cases/authors-guild-v-hathitrust). Check out the

>> Opinion Granting Summary Judgement of Fair Use [PDF] as the judge includes

>> a transformative use of creating accessible versions of the scanned

>> materials.

>>

>>

>> Take care,

>> Sean

>>

>>

>>

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>> On Jan 22, 2015, at 10:31 AM, Susan Kelmer <Susan.Kelmer at Colorado.EDU

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>>

>> Looking for info on court cases that fell in our favor regarding the

>> production of alternate format for students.  I know there was a relatively

>> recent case but can’t put my finger on it.  One of my law students is

>> working on a project and was asking me questions.

>>

>> Thanks!

>>

>> Susan Kelmer

>> Alternate Format Coordinator

>> Disability Services

>> University of Colorado Boulder

>> 107 UCB

>> Boulder, CO 80309

>> 303-735-4836

>>

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