Tools and Resources

This is a PDF version of a slide show which offers a tool for assuring that a fitness center reviews several features to insure full accessibility. This presentation can be used in conjunction with Removing Barriers to Health Clubs and Fitness Facilities A Guide for Accommodating All Members, Including People with Disabilities and Older Adults, also found on this website.

In order to provide equal opportunities for all library users, it is necessary to look with the eyes of all patron groups at the physical condition of library buildings, as well as library services and programs. This checklist, developed by the IFLA Standing Committee of Libraries Serving Disadvantaged Persons (LSDP) in the Hague, is designed as a practical tool for all types of libraries (public, academic, school, special) to assess existing levels of accessibility to buildings, services, materials and programs and to enhance accessibility where needed.

This self-assessment tool for companies includes questions which are intended as an aid in assessing an organization's ability to accommodate employees and trainees with disabilities. Questions will be helpful information for prospective applicants as well for employer internal monitoring purposes.

This 8 question quiz tests your knowledge of ergonomics in the workplace. This website also provides products to accommodate a wide range of physical abilities and impairments. The developers of these products implement universal design in all of their work.

This 27 page guide explains general accessibility features every home should include in order to accommodate homeowners with various abilities and needs in the future. The guide includes a list of priority features, select important universal features, and diagrams of how to remodel/build an accessible home inside and out.

This PDF document is a checklist for builders to off consumers information about accessivility of residential dwellings.

California law requires a builder of new for-sale residential units to provide potential buyers with a list of specific “universal design features” which make a home safer and easier to use for persons who are aging or frail, or who have certain temporary or permanent activity limitations or disabilities.This Checklist includes those features related to exterior adaptations, doors and openings, interior adaptations, kitchens, and bathrooms or powder rooms.features which apply to other parts of the house and are commonly requested or considered universal design features. and offers space for details to make the home more usable and safer for a person with any type of activity limitation or disability.

General guidelines and a comprehensive checklist of considerations to make the student advising process accessible for persons with disabilities.

A free pdf from the Center for Universal Design, North Carolina State University, includes a checklist to help individuals think about their own needs and those of potential users when selecting products. Questions for consideration are based on the 7 Principles of Universal Design.

This excellent article, in Implications, A Newsletter by InformeDesign, a website for design and human behavior research has very good recommendations regarding wayfinding. "Community settings must accommodate an increasingly diverse population, it is critical that they be designed to be as inclusive and universally accessible as possible, addressing the requirements of a wide range of physical, sensory, and cognitive abilities and needs."

"Wayfinding (the process individuals use to navigate in unfamiliar surroundings) is necessary to living one’s life and is something that most people do every day. Wayfinding information is instrumental in finding a desired destination."