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Bulletin Board, Blackboard, and Dry-Erase/White Board Purchase, and Installation Guidelines

This protocol addresses the needs of all users to access standard bulletin boards, blackboards, and white/dry-erase boards. Currently, ADA has guidelines for signage, but does not include bulletin board, blackboard, or white board guidelines. ADA requires that signs be hung at 60” to the mid-height of the sign (ADA, 2002). Although this is useful for signs, 60” places small boards too high for the reach of many users.

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Accessible Bulletin Boards  (PDF File) (ACCESS-ed)

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Posted by: Karthikeyan Sadhasivam on Tue Oct 11, 2011 at 1:18 p.m.

Accessible bulletin board purchase and installation guidelines are good. They have considered the height of wheel chair users to access black boards. Normal eye height of a wheel chair user is 43" to 51", since height to the center of the board is mentioned 54". Some of the wheel chair users with eye-height at the lower end might have difficulties and might adopt an awkward posture while writing on the board. But still this specification covers a large population of wheel chair users.

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Posted by: sonjabackus on Mon Nov 12, 2012 at 3:54 p.m.

The guidelines given are very helpful. The document showed the proper heights for blackboards given a wheelchair user however could show more pictures.

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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.

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The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability