Resources
This page summarizes resources that students in this course may find relevant to their projects or class discussions.
Please email the instructors if you have additional resources to add.
Events and Organizations
Local Talk Series and Events
Local Organizations
- Achilles New York Chapter
- Adapt Community Network
- Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library
- Heartshare
- Level the Curve
- Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities (MOPD)
- Quad Gods
- Tech Kids Unlimited
Organizations Focusing on Race and Disability
- Anti-Ableism
- Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network (AWN)
- Disability Visibility Project (Online Community)
- HEARD (Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf Communities)
- Rooted In Rights
- Sins Invalid (Dance Company)
Readings
Accessible and INclusive Design
- Do’s and Don’ts on Designing for Accessibility
- IBM Equal Access Toolkit (free and open source toolkit)
- Inclusive Design for a Digital World: Designing with Accessibility in Mind| by Regine Gilbert
- Inclusive Design Toolkit (University of Cambridge)
- Inclusive Design Toolkit (Microsoft)
Long COVID and Disability
- 1,374 Days My Life with Long Covid (interactive, New York Times, 2023)
- Disability Visibility: And Now Here We Are (Disability Visibility comic)
- Guidance on “Long COVID” as a Disability Under the ADA, Section 504, and Section 1557 (HHS)
- Long Covid and Abelism (Washington Post)
- Long Covid and the ADA (ADA.gov)
- Long Covid and Disability Identity (the Atlantic)
- Long Covid Prevalence (CDC, August 2023)
- Many try to return to normal from COVID, but disabled people face a different reality (NPR, 2022)
Digital Accessibility
- NYC MOPD Resources and checklists
- NYU Digital Accessibility Guidelines
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
- Web Accessibility in Mind (WebAIM)
- Plain Language Guide (NALA)
Disability Studies (Books)
- Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation | by Sanaura Taylor
- Claiming Disability Knowledge and Identity | by Simi Linton
- Crip Technoscience Manifesto | by Aimi Hamraie and Kelly Fritsch
- Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability | by Robert McRuer
- Demystifying Disability | by Emily Ladau, plain language version (free)
- Disability History of the United States | by Kim E Nielsen
- Disability Theory | by Tobin Siebers
- Don’t Call me Inspirational | by Harilyn Rousso
- Fred and Me: a Willowbrook Survivor’s Story | by Allan Benjamin Goldstein
- My Body Politic | by Simi Linton
- Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment | by James I. Charlton
- Rough Waters | by Heather Markham
- There Plant Eyes: A personal and Cultural History of Blindness | by Leona Godin
- What can a body do? | by Sara Hendren
Talking about Disability / Accessibility / Access (Articles and Videos)
- Critical Accessibility Theory (Crystal Preston-Watson, 2023)
- Disability Dongle (Liz Jackson, 2022)
- IT Inclusive Language Guide (University of Washington, 2022)
- ‘Is That Ableist?’ Good Question. (NY Times, 2022)
- The Fashion Empire Built on Stolen Ideas (New Republic, 2023)
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Disability Statistics
- Global Disability Statistics (Deque University)
DIY Assistive Technology
- Adaptive Design Association
- Assistive Technology Solutions in Minutes
- DIY Ability
- enabling the future
- Thisables (Ikea 3D printed solutions)
- Tikkun Olam Makers
Films
- Ability Exchange (Film by Bing Wang, on NYU Disability Studies class)
- Crip Camp | A Disability Revolution
- Going Blind (Film by Joseph Lovett )
- Opening Doors to College (30 minute film about supporting people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in college)
Training Opportunities
- Deque Accessibility Training (free to NYU community)
- NYU Library Data Services Classes (teaches fundamentals in quantitative and qualitative analysis)
- NYU Makerspace (provides fabrication hardware and software fabrication training) (video tutorials) (events)
- Online American Sign Language training