Call for questions: Navigating the ADA Title II Digital Accessibility Rule

The April 2026 compliance deadline is approaching. Is your library ready?

Join five MLA Caucuses (User Experience, Accessibility & Disability, Vision Science, Technical Services, and Technology in Education) for a 90-minute deep dive into the Department of Justice’s new rule impacting websites, LibGuides, databases, and instructional materials.

Event Details

 

Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Time: 1:00 PM Central / 2:00 PM ET/ 12:00 pm MT/ 11:00 AM PT

Who can participate: Anyone! MLA membership not required

Platform: Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83051394100?pwd=JM4jFRGGBteWR7bB4BDVvrX0hJa1LN.1

We Want Your Questions!  Help our expert panel address your specific "on the ground" challenges—from legacy PDF remediation to vendor accountability. Questions will be anonymized and used to provide actionable, real-world solutions.

Submit Your Questions Here Deadline to submit: Thursday, February 12, 2026 (11:59 PM PST)

See the full text of this rule at ADA.gov: https://www.ada.gov/law-and-regs/regulations/title-ii-2010-regulations/ 

Note: The above text was written by the MLA Multi-Caucus Planning Committee (on behalf of the User Experience, Accessibility & Disability, Vision Science, Technical Services, and Technology in Education Caucuses)

Entertaining Read: Author responds to journal's phishing email with fake paper on "pregnancy cravings for prime numbers"

Image by Kris from Pixabay

Retraction Watch published a guest post on an author's experience submitting a fake paper to a likely fraudulent journal. In addition to being an entertaining read, the post provides a bit of a behind-the-scenes look at some of the predatory tactics employed by potentially fraudulent publishers. 

Spoiler: The author's fake paper was, in fact, published, and, as noted by a commenter, is searchable in databases like OpenAlex and Google Scholar. The paper can also be helpfully summarized by AI tools such as Elicit (which isn't surprising, as Elicit, like many AI literature summarizers, crawls OpenAlex as one of its data sources). 

For a firsthand account from someone who had fallen victim to a predatory publisher, I highly recommend checking out this 2019 article from Science by Alan H. Chambers.

Thanks for reading, and hope everyone has a great Monday!