With the help of our Child and Teen Library Accessibility Interest Group, we’ve assembled resources to support the work libraries are doing to ensuring accessibility for all their users, including those with print disabilities. These links have been carefully chosen to represent accessibility information from credible sources and positively reflect services for people with varying disabilities. Our hope is that you will be inspired by the content in these links, where you’ll find accessibility tips, collection suggestions, communication approaches and programming ideas.

To help you get started, you may wish to learn more about how to talk about people with disabilities, as well as general tips regarding respectful disability etiquette.

• Identity-first vs. person-first language is an important distinction
• Disability etiquette: a starting guide

Want to learn more about library services for kids and teens with disabilities?

Join the Child & Teen Library Accessibility Interest Group
 

Are you just beginning to learn about accessibility best practices?  These resources will provide you with the basic concepts to create inclusive services at your library.

• The A11y project
• What is universal design?
• How to train your staff on accessibility (AODA)
• Accessible customer service policy template (AODA)
• Accessibility Standard for Customer Service (The Accessibility for Manitobans Act)
• Deaf terminology
• Guide dogs and service animals (AODA)