Accessibility

A listing of content on the site related to accessibility and similiar topics.

Palos y piedras (PDF)

Este es el archivo en formato PDF de la versión en español de Palos y Piedras: Personas con discapacidades y sus historias de abuso, resistencia, y tenacidad

Adjustable Exam Tables Handout

Adjustable exam tables provide critical benefits to health care providers and consumers. This plain language handout makes clear what those benefits are and how medical services providers can obtain accessible tables.

Accessibility & Assistive Technology

 

EQUITY e-newsletter: April 2004

Web Site Accessibility

EQUITY e-newsletter: May 2006

Telework: Home-based Asset Building

World Wide Web Consortium Web Accessibility Initiative

 

HUD Property Improvement Loan Insurance- Title 1

 

HUD Rehabilitation Mortgage Insurance- 203(k)

 

HUD Indian Home Loan Guarantee Program- Sect. 184

 

HUD Emergency Repair Grants (PDF only)

 

Fair Housing Accessibility Guidelines

 

U.S. Department of Agriculture Home Renovation & Repair Program

 

National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM)

 

Do-It

Disabilities, Opportunities, Internet working and Technology.

Center for Accessible Technology

Based in Berkeley, CA.

AbleData

 

Alliance for Technology Access Hub

 

Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID)

 

RehabTool.com

Adaptive and assistive technology resource; lots of links.

TRACE

Research and Development Center on Technology and Disability.

Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)

Educational nonprofit that uses technology to expand opportunities for all people.

Bobby

A web based tool for analyzing webpages for accessibility.

W3C

World Wide Web Consortium.

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)

Web Accessibility Initiative of the W3C. Check here often for the latest in recommended Web accessibility guidelines.

WheelchairNet

"A virtual community for wheelchair-minded people", sponsored by the RERC on Wheeled Mobility, NIDRR and University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.

Computer Accommodations Program of the US Department of Defense (DOD)

The Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program (CAP) provides assistive technology accommodations and services to persons with disabilities at the Department of Defense (DOD), at no cost to individual activities.

Center for Universal Design

Center for Universal Design at North Carolina State University.

National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions - Advocacy

 

ADA Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings & Facilities (ADAAG)

 

The Center for Universal Design

 

Inclusive Home Design Act of 2005 (HR 1441)

 

Concrete Change

 

American Council of the Blind Press Release, 4/24/08

 

Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund

 

Oregon Advocacy Center

 

Heller Ehrman LLP

 

On-line Video Description Consumer Guide

 

New publication! How to Create Disability Access to Technology: Best Practices in Electronic and Information Technology Companies

This manual explains how today's technology companies are largely ignoring a huge, untapped global market of millions of people with disabilities. In the US alone, there over 54 million people with disabilities­a market that is expected to nearly double in the next 15 years. Five easy-to-read "How To" chapters cover how technology industry experts created accessibility in their companies, how AOL's strategic commitment to accessibility averted a costly Americans with Disabilities Act verdict, and how to use the included extensive resources to understand the disability market and how it will be changing.

Technology and Disability: a global glimpse of the future

WID commissioned several specialists to prepare overviews of key technology topics with a view towards the future. Some of the reports have already appeared in DisabilityWorld, while others are printed here for the first time. The topics selected for an international perspective are: universal design, advocacy and the information society, accessible information technology in the European Union, wheelchair provision trends in developing countries and information technology developments benefiting blind and print disabled users.

How to Create Disability Access to Technology: Best Practices in Electronic and Information Technology Companies

The book reveals how technology manufacturers gain not only corporate social responsibility goals, but also bottom-line profits by producing accessible products for people with disabilities. This is the first guide to show exactly how the design of common technology products - such as cell phones and computers - benefits from including people with disabilities in design, testing and marketing. It also explains how companies can avoid costly mistakes.

The Internet: An Inclusive Magnet for Teaching All Students

This 21-page handbook promotes access to the Internet in K-12 schools for students with disabilities, students with a variety of learning styles and those who do not speak English as their first language. The handbook provides practical tips, general access guidelines, resource listings and success stories of teachers from across the U.S. who use the Internet in their classrooms.

"Technology Access for All" Program and Curriculum for Organizations and Individuals (Multimedia)

The free audio-visual program "Technology Access for All" and curriculum were created to help organizations and people with disabilities advocate for access to technology. This presentation package explains what current policy is, what is lacking, and how Federal laws and regulations can help or hinder access to technology information, goods and services for people with disabilities. The training provides an overview of laws, regulations, and policies guaranteeing access to electronic and information technology for people with disabilities.

"How to Find and Buy Accessible Technology" Program and Curriculum for Organizations and Individuals

This training instructs people with disabilities on how to think about their accessibility needs when it comes to choosing electronic products. The training provides advice and strategies for how to research the products that most closely meet people's needs. One section addresses how to work with electronic companies to improve the accessibility of their products.

Integrating Universal Design Principles in Asset Building Programs

We are only beginning to understand the applicability of Universal Design approaches in diverse arenas. Universal Design began largely as physical accommodation practices that revolutionized the way people thought about access issues. This paper proposes ways of expanding Universal Design concepts to Asset Building programs, using concrete examples for implementation. Opening Universal Design principles up to challenging ways of thinking, presenting information, as well as physical accommodation is a major step toward a more inclusive world.

Accessible Housing Database and Manual

The goal of the Accessible Housing Database package is to provide a tool with which Independent Living Centers can track accessible rental housing in their community, and from which officials and advocates can draw data in order to assess affordability and availability of accessible housing.

Download sample pages from How to Create Disability Access to Technology: Best Practices in Electronic and Information Technology Companies

The book reveals how technology manufacturers gain not only corporate social responsibility goals, but also bottom-line profits by producing accessible products for people with disabilities. This is the first guide to show exactly how the design of common technology products - such as cell phones and computers - benefits from including people with disabilities in design, testing and marketing. It also explains how companies can avoid costly mistakes.

Download Introduction to How to Create Disability Access to Technology: Best Practices in Electronic and Information Technology Companies

The book reveals how technology manufacturers gain not only corporate social responsibility goals, but also bottom-line profits by producing accessible products for people with disabilities. This is the first guide to show exactly how the design of common technology products - such as cell phones and computers - benefits from including people with disabilities in design, testing and marketing. It also explains how companies can avoid costly mistakes.

MAP to Access

MAP to Access is a comprehensive training curriculum to help you learn about your right to accessible, quality health care as required by federal law. You will receive training in self-advocacy skills to enable you to become educators and resource people for your own health providers and local health care organizations about these rights and the resources required to enable them.