If you’re into listservs and ezines, here is a good list of them on disability issues including DISLISEM for library students, librarians and information professionals with disabilities.
Don’t Just Serve People with Disabilities–Hire Them
Hioni Karamanos has collected links and compiled a bibliography relating to library staff with disabilities.
is your OPAC accessible?
Accessibility of Online Databases: A Usability Study of Research Databases. Is your OPAC accesible to people who use adaptive technology to look up materials in your library?
Perhaps the most profound outcome of this study for those of us who work in the area of Access Technologies is the extent to which this research shows that [Section 508] conformity and usability can be at opposite ends of the spectrum. A very good example of this dichotomy is the Silver Platter databases which for the most part showed conformity with the Section 508 Standards, but are extremely difficulty to use due to poor site construction and almost a total lack of usability with an audio browser.
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Hi. My rad landlady is now sporting one of the “Repeal the USA PATRIOT Act” stickers on her back bumper. This is, after all, the woman whose license plate reads DMOCRAT.
web braille
Your print disabled patrons may be interested to know about Web Braille, Braille books and magazines available through the web, for free to eleigible patrons and libraries. Don’t know what to read? There’s always the Braille Book Review.