ADA On-line Resources

AHEAD

The Association on Higher Education and Disability is a national organization devoted to serving and advocating for the disabled in higher education. One of its most recent efforts has been to establish guidelines for documentation of disabilities, something that has been sorely needed. The AHEAD site also has links to recent Office of Civil Rights findings, which OCR has made available to clarify its thinking on ADA compliance.

NCAM

The National Center for Accessible Media provides ideas for making websites and other multimedia educational materials accessible to disabled users. There are some excellent demonstrations of how to make a website accessible. Some involve a lot of work, but the majority don't. Visually impaired web users, for instance, often use screen readers. Including ALT image tags and test alternatives to image maps makes pages much more accessible to them. Guidelines for Accessible Web Publishing

The Center on Disabilities, California State--Northridge

The Center on Disabilities sponsors an annual conference, "Technology and Persons with Disabilities," and maintains a website with information about projects underway to provide educational access to persons with disabilities.

DAIS

Disability Access Information and Support is headed by Jane Jarrow, a prominent consultant in the area of providing disability services and access. Jane has visited DePauw several times and helped to craft our current policies and procedures. The DAIS website has a number of resource links, as well as articles and references on matters pertaining to ADA in higher education.

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights

U.S. Department of Justice, ADA Home Page

The most detailed set of resources on ADA compliance. Publications includes the full text of the ADA and Section 504, as well as regulations and proposed regulations.