Posts Tagged ‘AHEAD’

June 10, 2014 | Court Decision

Victory for Individuals with Print Disabilities: Court Decision in Authors Guild, Inc. v. HathiTrust

On June 10, 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held in Authors Guild, Inc. v. HathiTrust that the libraries that are members of the HathiTrust Digital Library can “create a full-text searchable database of copyrighted works and provide those works in formats accessible to those with disabilities.”  As argued for in […]

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March 31, 2014 | News

Comments on 2014 Proposed Justice Department ADAAA Regulations

On March 31, 2014, the Association on Higher Education And Disability (AHEAD) and Everyone Reading submitted joint comments in response to the U.S. Department of Justice’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to amend its Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) regulations in order to implement the 2008 ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA).

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