Welcome to EMMA

EMMA: The purpose of EMMA is to reduce the duplication of effort in disability service offices at colleges and universities, and thereby to enable faster, better service for those needing accessible learning materials. EMMA users are staff working on behalf of students with qualifying disabilities, and those people can download texts for higher education in a range of accessible formats, searchable by their accessibility characteristics. You must sign in to upload or download files, but you can search EMMA (and read EMMA's help documentation) without signing in, so have a look at what we have to offer! More information at https://emma.uvacreate.virginia.edu .

Libraries: EMMA depends on sharing, because the greatest value to be found in EMMA will always be the made-accessible texts that are contributed by its members. Sharing takes time, so EMMA encourages libraries to partner with disability services by periodically uploading the remediated texts that have been created on their campuses.

Legal: Have questions about the legality of sharing copyrighted content for the benefit of users with print disabilities? Please see our white paper "The Law and Accessible Texts: Reconciling Civil Rights and Copyrights" published by the Association of Research Libraries.