Resources for Organizations
UNDERSTANDING ACCESSIBILITY FOR ARTS ORGANIZATIONS
- National Endowment for the Arts Accessibility Resources
- VSA: The International Organization for Arts and Disability
- VSA International Network
- UCLA National Arts and Disability Center Resource List
- Digital Accessibility in the Age of Covid-19
- National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability (NCHPAD)
- Breaking Barriers - Utah Division of Arts and Museums
CHECKLISTS & WORKBOOKS
ACCESSIBLE DESIGN
- The Center for Universal Design
- Universal Design: Process, Principles, and Applications
- Accessibility & Universal Design
- Smithsonian Guidelines for Accessible Exhibition Design
- American Alliance of Museums - Museopunks Episode 40: A Very Human Exhibition
- ARCHES (Accessible Resources for Cultural Heritage EcoSystems)
- Design For the Rest of Us: Where Are Design Museums’ Benches?
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL): A Teacher’s Guide
- Howlround Resources for Theaters
WEBSITE ACCESSIBILITY
- Testing Screen Reader Compatibility
- Carnegie Museums Web Accessibility Guide
- HTML Headings
- How to Write an Image Description
- How to Write Alt Text & Image Descriptions for Photojournalism Images
- Descriptive Links
- Providing Structure in Web Pages and Documents
- 10 Best Practices of Accessible Museum Websites
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
- Wave® Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
- Access SC IT
SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS
- Is Your Social Media Accessible to Everyone? These 9 Best Practices Can Help
- Princeton Social Media Accessibility Guidelines
- Global Accessibility Awareness Day Post Three: Describe it Well to Help Your Users Get the Picture
- Choosing High Contrast Color Schemes for Low Vision
EVENTS
- Presenter Guidelines: Accessibility & Inclusion: Best Practices in Accessibility Webinar
- How to Make Your Virtual Meetings & Events Accessible to the Disability Community
ACCESSIBLE DOCUMENTS
- Creating Accessible Documents
- MicrosoftWord - Creating Accessible Documents
- Best Practices and Guidelines for Large Print Documents
SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS & RESOURCES
- Working with Sign Language Interpreters for Events
- ADA Quick Tips - Sign Language Interpreters
- Utah Interpreter Directory
- Video Remote Interpreting - One Interpreting
CAPTIONING SERVICES & VIDEO TOOLS
- Otter.ai
- Rev Captioning
- 3Play Media
- Described & Captioned Media Program
- 8 Ways to Make Video Accessible
- How to Create Accessible Videos
- Accessible Communication for Video Production
- Communication Access Realtime Translation
AUDIO DESCRIPTION
- What is Audio Description?
- Beginner's Guide to Audio Description
- Recorded Audiodescriptive Guide for Museums
- Cooper Hewitt Museum Guidelines for Image Descriptions
- Why Audio Descriptions Need to Be a Priority for Your Content
- Imagining the Future of Audio Description
- 3Play Media
- Audio Description Solutions
- The Audio Description Project
ACCESSIBILITY FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED
- Lighthouse for the Blind & Visually Impaired
- Making Museums Accessible to Visually Impaired Visitors
- MCA Denver Announces New Glasses for Color Blind Visitors to have Richer, More Colorful Museum Experience
- Choosing High Contrast Color Schemes for Low Vision
SENSORY ACCESSIBILITY
- Milwaukee Public Museum's Sensory Room
- Speechless: A Sensory Exhibition Charts A New Path to Accessibility in Learning
- Eureka! Sensory Guide
NEURODIVERITY
SIZE INCLUSION, BODY IMAGE, & HEALTH
CREATIVE AGEING & ANTI-AGEISM
- Let's End Ageism
- Connect Through Creativity Now
- Dementia-friendly app for seniors loaded with museum-provided content to jolt memories
ACCESSIBILITY OUTDOORS
- Common Ground - Logan
- National Ability Center - Park City
- Splore - Salt Lake City/Moab
- Visit Utah Accessibility
- Agrability
ADDITIONAL SERVICES
DISABILITY HISTORY READING & VIEWING LIST
- A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielson
- Crip Camp
- Skin, Tooth, and Bones by Sins Invalid
- Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights by Judith Heumann
- Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig
- Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong
- Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma
- Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison
- The World's Strongest Librarian: A Book Lover's Adventures by Josh Hanagarne