Access for All recommends the following external resources:
ADA
US Department of Justice ADA: Information and technical assistance on the Americans with Disabilities Act
Access Board: an independent Federal agency devoted to accessibility for people with disabilities.
Audio Description
Described and Captioned Media Program: promotes and provides equal access to communication and learning through described and captioned educational media
Descriptive Video Service: a national service that makes television programs, feature films, home videos, and other visual media accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired
Captioning
Described and Captioned Media Program: promotes and provides equal access to communication and learning through described and captioned educational media
Communication
Augmentative and Alternative Communication: provides strategies to assist people with severe communication disabilities to participate more fully in their social roles, including interpersonal interaction, learning, education, community activities, employment, volunteerism, and care management
Disability Benefits
Disability Benefits 101: provides information on working with a disability in California
Disability Etiquette
Disability Etiquette: The United Spinal Association offers tips on Interacting with people with disabilities
Emergency Services
Disaster Preparedness for People with Disabilities: gives tips on getting informed, making a plan, assembling a kit, and maintaining these plans for people with mobility problems or who have hearing, learning, or seeing disabilities.
Employment
Job Accommodation Network: facilitates the employment and retention of workers with disabilities by providing employers, employment providers, people with disabilities, their family members and other interested parties with information on job accommodations, entrepreneurship, and related subjects
Films
Films about Disabilities: presents a detailed list of over 3,000 feature films & documentaries which involve in one way or another various disabilities
Health and Wellness
One Size Does Not Fit All: Meeting the Health Care Needs of Diverse Populations-- offered by the Joint Commission on Health
Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Improve the Health and Wellness of Persons with Disabilities-- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
History
Disability History: includes the history of individuals or groups with disabilities, perspectives on disability, representations/ constructions of disability, policy and practice history, teaching, theory, and Disability and related social and civil rights movements
Performing Artists
Deaf Performing Artists Network: exists to bridge the gaps between the deaf/hard of hearing community, the entertainment industry, and the public at large; creates media designed specifically to serve deaf audiences through the use of American Sign Language (ASL)
Telephone Access
Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program: a California State mandated program, administered by the California Public Utilities Commission
- California Relay Service (CRS): provides specially-trained operators to relay telephone conversations back and forth between people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or speech-disabled and all those they wish to communicate with by telephone
- Speech-to-Speech Relay Service: makes it possible for people who can hear but who have a speech disability to carry on a telephone conversation with anyone they might wish to communicate
- California Telephone Access Program (CTAP): distributes telecommunications equipment and services to individuals certified as having difficulty using the telephone
Free 411 Assistance: America’s leading provider of free directory assistance
Universal Design
Universal Design: the design of products and environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design
Web Accessibility
Introduction to Web Accessibility: helps you understand how people with disabilities use the web, the frustrations they feel when they cannot access the web, and what you can do to make your sites more accessible
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