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Tag Archives: ADA
Happy Anniversary ADA!
As many of you in the disability community are aware, today is the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990′s 21st Anniversary. We have made great strides to provide equality for people with disabilities in the workforce, education, and in our daily lives. However, we have a lot of work to do to ensure complete equality. [...]
Public Transit ADA Features
Have you ever given much thought to what goes on at your typical public transit stop when those doors hiss open? Particularly for buses, but to a lesser extent subway, light rail, and other types of mass transit. Of course you have some passengers disembarking rapidly as others push and shove their way aboard. Often, [...]
Accessibility, Disability, Uncategorized
Also tagged bus route, fixed bus route, paratransit, public transit
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Accessibility and Higher Education
I’ve been interested in what colleges and universities have been doing to make new technologies accessible for people with disabilities. The gist of the issue is, that many colleges and universities tend to adopt new technologies without stopping to address accessibility issues, then have to go back and address it later. Which is time consuming [...]
Disabilities and Libraries
I came across a real treasure trove of disability internet resources from ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) website. Electronic resources on disabilities: A wealth of information on topics from jobs to recreation All throughout library school, and after, I did various projects on accessibility issues. I didn’t realize how much so until I [...]
