aserl-accessibilityig Mailing List: Collective wisdom about inaccessible spaces

[Beth Ashmore (beashmor]

Hi ASERL Accessibility people,

I am in search of your accessibility wisdom! In an ASERL accessibility
working group meeting last week a couple of questions came up about how to
handle some types of inaccessible space and we wondered what others were
doing.

Question 1: What does your library do when a normally accessible space
becomes temporarily inaccessible? For example, if you have a space that is
only accessible to users in wheelchairs via an elevator, but the only
elevator serving the area is temporarily going to be down. Do you have a
protocol for notifying patrons about a planned outage? What about an
unplanned outage?


Question 2: What about places that you discover are inaccessible like a new
printer/copier, that you didn't pick, where the screen is too high for
users who use wheelchairs? Has anyone had any success with
accommodating these kinds of devices that they can share?

Feel free to respond to the list (aserl-accessibilityig [at] aserl-lists.org) or
respond directly to me (beashmor [at] ncsu.edu) and I can summarize for the 
list.

Thanks,
Beth

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Beth Ashmore
she | her
Associate Head, Acquisitions and Discovery (Serials)
North Carolina State University Libraries
beashmor [at] ncsu.edu
919-513-3354
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