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Accessible Print Materials

This printable PDF document provides formatting guidelines to accomodate every audience.

Massachusetts Department of Public Health Office on Health and Disability

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Posted by: diha2000 on Thu Oct 13, 2011 at 6:52 a.m.

A great resource and very well designed. Provides good explanations of making print materials more accessible. The only thing I would improve is within the manual, make the actual tips (with the numbered region) text font larger/different or somehow distinguish it more from the other part of the text.

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Posted by: neverma6 on Thu Nov 07, 2013 at 3:53 p.m.

Great information and design, but it would be even better with an interactive table of contents/menu that would allow users to select the section they want to read specifically, without having to scroll through the whole thing.

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It took me several years of struggling with the heavy door to my building, sometimes having to wait until a person stronger came along, to realize that the door was an accessibility problem, not only for me, but for others as well. And I did not notice, until one of my students pointed it out, that the lack of signs that could be read from a distance at my university forced people with mobility impairments to expend a lot of energy unnecessarily, searching for rooms and offices. Although I have encountered this difficulty myself on days when walking was exhausting to me, I interpreted it, automatically, as a problem arising from my illness (as I did with the door), rather than as a problem arising from the built environment having been created for too narrow a range of people and situations.

Susan Wendell, author of
The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability