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Tag Archives: accessibility
What are home modification and visitability?
According to the National Resource Center on Supportive Housing and Home Modification, home modification “includes major or minor adaptations to the interior or exterior home environments that make it possible for the person living in the home to carry out … Continue reading
Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community July 2019
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. This month’s question is: I am a person with a disability and would like to be more physically active. What information and resources … Continue reading
Posted in Answer Queue, Respuestas a las Preguntas
Tagged #AnsweredQuestions, #ResearchInFocus, ABLEDATA, access, accessibility, accessible sports, adaptive sports, adults, assistive technology, AT, children, community participation, developmental disabilities, Disabilities, exercise, healthy lifestyles, inclusion, intellectual disabilities, minorities, mobility disabilities, MSKTC, NIDILRR, NIDILRR Projects, NIDILRR Research, obesity, participation, people with disabilities, physical disabilities, recreation, Research In Focus, social inclusion, wheelchair sport
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Get Your Summer Reading List in Shape with These Publications from the NIDILRR Community
If you are packing for a Summer vacation, you might be putting together a pile of books you’ve been meaning to get to. Maybe they’re light fiction, “beach reads,” or the latest mysteries. Or, if you’re like us, maybe they’re … Continue reading
Celebrating Fathers for Father’s Day!
Father’s Day is right around the corner. To celebrate all fathers, grandfathers, fathers with disabilities, and fathers of children with disabilities, we are sharing resources from the NIDILRR community and elsewhere! Fathers with Disabilities: The Parents Empowering Parents: National Research … Continue reading
Posted in Right Resources Right Now
Tagged #FathersDay, accessibility, assistive technology, AT, children, Disabilities, disability, families, families with disabilities, fathers, fathers of children with disabilities, fathers with disabilities, inclusion, NIDILRR, NIDILRR Research, people with disabilities, Research In Focus, RIF
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day – A Quick List to Get You Up to Speed
May 16th is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) – a day dedicated to raising awareness of accessibility and inclusivity in the digital world. According to GAAD organizers, developers, designers, and programmers may be interested in making an accessible digital world, … Continue reading
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Tagged #GAAD, accessibility, global accessibility awareness day
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Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community for March 2019
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. This month’s question is: Our child with disabilities has begun high school and we are starting to plan their transition into adulthood. What … Continue reading
Posted in Respuestas a las Preguntas
Tagged accessibility, Answered Questions, cultural adaptations, education, employment, NIDILRR, NIDILRR Projects, peer providers, research, Spanish, Spanish-language, support, transition, transition programs, transition to adulthood, transition to education, transition to employment
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Project Spotlight: Experiencing the World via Touch
February is Low Vision Awareness Month. For many individuals who are blind, living with low vision, or who are Deaf/blind, touch is an important sense for experiencing the world around them. Technology that is tactile or haptic can help people … Continue reading
Posted in Project, Publications, Research Study, Uncategorized
Tagged ABLEDATA, accessibility, assistive technology, Audio-Tactile Web Accessibility with Haptic Gloves, blind, books, deaf-blind, displays, exhibits, Field Initiated Projects, haptic, low vision, Low Vision Awareness Month, museums, NIDILRR Projects, NIDILRR-funded research, REHABDATA search, SBIR, tactile systems, touch, Touch-Responsive Models for Universal Access to Smithsonian Museums Exhibits, visual disabilities
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Inclusive Customer Service Makes (Dollars and) Sense
As we head into the busy holiday season, people will be traveling, dining out, and shopping in stores and online. This includes people with disabilities. According to A Hidden Market: The Purchasing Power of Working-Age Adults with Disabilities, working age … Continue reading
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Tagged accessibility, customer service, web accessibility
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