New Resources on Students with Disabilities and Website Accessibility

The ASCLA Resources Page has been updated to include new information on website accessibility and students with disabilities:

Students with Disabilities: Pre-K-12
Project ENABLE (Expanding Nondiscriminatory Access By Librarians Everywhere): This comprehensive site provides information and training for developing effective library and information services for pre-K-12 students with disabilities. The site contains five self-paced learning modules, jam-packed with useful information in a variety of formats (text, still and moving images, graphics, audio over PowerPoint, and more). You will find information to read, videos to view, games to play, learning exercises to challenge you, and quizzes to assess your learning.
Website Accessibility
Raising the Floor (RtF) is an international coalition of individuals and organizations working to ensure that the Internet, and everything available through it, is accessible to people experiencing accessibility barriers due to disability, literacy, or age.

The ASCLA Resources page contains links that will lead you to excerpts from selected ASCLA publications or to Web sites that may be of interest in the following areas. Visit this page often for new information about serving the following topics:

  • Blind and Physically Handicapped
  • Certification
  • Cooperative Library Organizations
  • Deaf/Hard of Hearing
  • Equity of Access
  • Impaired Elderly Library Patrons
  • Independent Librarians
  • Learning Disabilities
  • Prison Libraries
  • State Libraries
  • Students with Disabilities
  • Website Accessibility

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