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Making Accessibility Real: Guidelines for Meetings, Conferences and Gatherings
11/24/2003 | Requests *Summary
This working document provides strategies for making meetings and conferences truly accessible. It includes guidelines for ensuring that appropriate accommodations are identified and provided with respect to meeting spaces and materials, communication, room and board, and transportation. The document also provides suggestions for responding to specific functional issues, as well as sample documents and a list of additional resources.
Author
Available Files
- Accessibility Guidelines: brochure PDF (201K, 32 pages)
- Accessibility Guidelines: brochure Text (54K, 32 pages)
- Consumer Guidelines: pamphlet PDF (121K, 2 pages)
- Consumer Guidelines: pamphlet Text (3K, 2 pages)
- Speaker's Guidelines: pamphlet PDF (87K, 2 pages)
- Speaker's Guidelines: pamphlet Text (3K, 2 pages)
Keywords
accessible meetings; speaker's guidelines; consumer guidelines; planning meetings; conferences; ADA; hotels; presentations; appropriate
accommodations; identifying accessibility needs
Topic
Accessibility, Model Communities
Type/Tool
Checklists, Workbooks
Source
HCBS Resource Network
State
All States/Territories
Date Created
11/24/2003
Contact
Brenda Vitale
vitaleb@bc.edu
vitaleb@bc.edu
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Permission to use any element of this document should be obtained by the above named contact person. Always name the originator as the source of this material.
* Reflects requests since January 1, 2007
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