Accessibility Resources
Articles
As Hollywood and Tech look to Boost Diversity, Accessibility is Finally Having Its Moment by Abrar Al-Heeti
Studios and tech giants have ramped up efforts to include people with disabilities, but the work’s just begun.
NBCUniversal Adopts Guidelines to Audition Actors with Disabilities from DiverseAbility Magazine
NBCUniversal has committed to audition actors with disabilities with each new studio production, joining the roster of organizations pledging to follow guidelines created by the Ruderman Family Foundation to make film and TV more inclusive.
Best Practices of Accessible Museum Websites by Sina Bahram
This article explores ten high-impact areas you should consider to enhance your website’s accessibility and bring it into conformance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
Why You Might Want to Visit this Inclusive Amusement Park on Your Next Vacation by Joshua Brown
Morgan’s Wonderland is a one-of-a-kind theme park where every attraction is specially designed for “100% inclusion” of those with disabilities.
Inclusion Makes Significant Gains Throughout Amusement Industry Attractions by Tim Baldwin
In past decades parks have evolved in terms of accessibility to rides, no smoking policies throughout the park and more. A recent advancement is that of inclusion when it comes to autism disorders.
Videos
Gem Hubbard has created a video playlist of 10 videos reporting on her experience with accessibility practices within the Walt Disney World Resort as someone who uses a wheelchair.
Podcasts
Competitive employment and empowerment for people with disabilities is the emphasis of this show.
It’s a place to share your experiences and learn from others as we overcome barriers and learn to live a happy and healthy life with a disability.
Two Black women sharing their musings on life, multiple sclerosis, and everything in between
Disability News is a weekly program featuring news about various disabilities.
The podcast series is about information, ideas, and educating the community about Disability Employment.
Where the dialogue between the mainstream and the disabled communities meet.
Deconstruct social stigma for people with disabilities to generate a more understanding and inclusive society.
A podcast on conversations about politics, culture, and media with disabled people.
Learn from disability-focus leaders about high profile topics and how they are truly making a difference.
INNERSIGHT INC fights for independence, equality, total accessibility, enforcement and disability rights.
Documentaries & Movies
Sins Invalid: An Unashamed Claim to Beauty by Lawrence
A documentary about a performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilites, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized. (32m)
The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s. (2h 32m)
After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver. (1h 52m)
The Peanut Butter Falcon by Tyler Nilson
Zak runs away from his care home to make his dream of becoming a wrestler come true. (1h 37m)
The inspiring true love story of Robin and Diana Cavendish, an adventurous couple who refuse to give up in the face of a devastating disease. (1h 58m)
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution by James Lebrecht
Down the road from Woodstock, a revolution blossomed at a ramshackle summer camp for teenagers with disabilities, transforming their lives and igniting a landmark movement. (1h 46m)
Books
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong
In time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people.
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann
A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn’t built for all of us and of one woman’s activism-from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington-Begin Heumann recounts Judy Heumann’s lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance and inclusion in society.
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Aspergers by John Elder Robison
A born storyteller, Robinson has written a moving, darkly funny memoir about a life that has taken him from developing exploding guitars for KISS to building a family of his own.
Pride Against Prejudice: Transforming Attitudes to Disability by Jenny Morris
Disabled people throughout the world are increasingly naming and comforting the prejudice which we daily experience, expressing our anger at the discrimination we face, and insisting that our lives have value.
In The Pretty One, Brown gives contemporary and relatable voice to the diabled- so often portrayed as mute, weak, or isolated.
We Carry Kevan: Six Friends. Three Countries. No Wheelchair. by Kevan Chandler
In We Carry Kevan the reader sits with Kevan, one head-level above everyone else for the first time in his life and enjoys camaraderie unlike anything most people ever experience.
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma
The incredible life story of Haben Grima, the first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from isolation to the world stage.
Criptionary: Disability Humor and Satire by Maria Palacios
This humorous collection brings attention to the every day struggles and obstacles faced by persons with disabilities while a message of disability activism through which we reclaim our bodies and our lives.
Laughing at My Nightmare by Shane Burcaw
Shane Burcaw’s Laughing at My Nightmare describes the challenges he faces as a twenty-one-year-old with spinal muscular atrophy.
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
In this collection of essays, Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice.
Building Access: Universal Design and Politics of Disability by Aimi Hamraie
Drawing upon a broad archive of personal papers, trade literature, legal documents, and design ephemera, Building Access reveals Universal Design’s complex origins in disabled peoples’ knowledge and expertise about built environments.
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