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<p class="MsoNormal">Question about open access resources-- If your institution has a policy that all 3<sup>rd</sup> party commercial vendors must meet a certain level of web accessibility, how do you (or don’t you) apply this to non-commercial, freely available
open access (OA) resources? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For example, in our library, we include many OA resources in our list of databases (e.g.
<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page">Project Gutenberg</a>) and we do recommend them when appropriate. Some of these freely available resources likely don’t meet a certain level of accessibility (and don’t have accessibility statements or VPATs).
Most of these resources are not required for course work. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">TIA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Heather Westerlund<br>
<span style="color:#595959">IT Manager, Library Services</span><br>
<a href="http://library.waldenu.edu/"><span style="color:#595959">Walden University Library</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959"><br>
612.312.1270 | </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="mailto:heather.westerlund@waldenu.edu"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959">heather.westerlund@waldenu.edu</span></a><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959">100 Washington Ave S, Ste 900 | Minneapolis, MN 55401</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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