A disability history timeline focused on selected time periods.
Category: Training & Documentation
Signage & Wayfinding
This section provides resources regarding signage and wayfinding in libraries. Including journal articles, literature reviews, videos, checklists, guidelines and examples, topics range from signage inventories, signage design, wayfinding techniques, and accessibility.
Sensory Elements
The resources on this page can provide information on best practices, guidelines, examples, and current research on sensory elements in the library.
Safety
This section addresses both physical and psychological safety (i.e., real security from harm and perception of security) as aspects of library physical spaces.
Furniture & Use of Space
Discusses types and selection of furniture, physical accessibility, and how students and other user groups use academic library spaces. Includes discussion of assessment methods.
Design & Aesthetics
This page provides resources for librarians to review aesthetics such as lighting, color, green space, artwork, book displays, and other exhibits to increase student belonging and mental health along with creating culturally responsive and inclusive spaces.
Undue Financial or Administrative Burden
These are considerations and resources for the undue financial or administrative burden (“undue burden”) defense as part of the updated web accessibility regulations (ADA Title II and HHS Section 504).
Alliance Training and Documentation Search
This search page limits results to Alliance webpages with categories for training and documentation.
Password-Protected Materials
Several Alliance webpages use passwords. The access information for the passwords is shared in the following ways.
Accessibility Speaker Series
As compliance dates for the updated federal web content accessibility regulations (ADA Title II and HHS Section 504) approach, library and archives workers have expressed interests and needs for more defined support to strengthen preparations in targeted library functional areas. The Alliance is hosting an accessibility webinar series to respond to these expressed interests and needs.
