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Accessibility Planning and Resource Guide for Cultural Administrators
The Guide provides guidance to cultural administrators on how to achieve accessible and inclusive programming for everyone including individuals with disabilities and older adults.  
 

Design for Accessibility CoverDesign for Accessibility: A Cultural Administrator's Handbook
Designed to help organizations not only comply with Section 504 and the Americans with Disabilities Act, but to assist in making access an integral part of planning, mission, programs, outreach, meetings, budget and staffing.
 

Accessibility Checklist for Lodging Facilities
A self-help survey for owners, franchisors, and managers of lodging facilities. Developed by the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division.

Disability Access Symbols
Developed with the Graphic Artists Guild Foundation, it is a graphics package of 12 major access symbols, available online or on computer disk, designed to help organizations better advertise their accessible programs and facilities.

Smithsonian Guidelines for Accessible Exhibition Design
A useful tool developed by the Smithsonian to assist exhibition designers, curators, registrars, conservators, collections managers, designers, editors, developers, educators, and other exhibition team members to open their exhibits to diverse audiences.

Section 504 Self-Evaluation Workbook
This Program Evaluation Workbook (Workbook) his designed to assist staff of Endowment grant recipients in evaluating the current state of accessibility of their programs and activities to disabled visitors and employees.


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