Singing in the Night

Using a Library with a learning disability in the 2020s is a walk in hell. For starters most of em aren't ordering there own audio/ebook stocks anymore... They use corporate platforms Libby and Hoopla to provide those services.

These apps are often incompatible with the types of reading assistance software that readers with print disabilities use . They have to be compatible somewhat But the Sec 508 Regs have a major blindspot. Pardon the pun, when it comes to sighted users who are impaired in their ability to read...

The other problem with audiobook/ebooks is that. There are an increasing number of books/ other materials you just cannot obtain. Because of content exclusivity deals. E.g a Netflix exclusive movie or book is netflix only, and they mean it. Same with "Only on Audible" books, ditto with small/vanity presses that only publish on Amazon.

Bottom line there are less resources at the library that i can actually use as a disabled patron then there were ten years ago.

No idea how libraries are responding to these conditions, but i intend to write a public comment for my next district board meeting Any Library people know about this. And what if anything the public can do...