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.
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Textile Arts
Local Organizations
Adaptive Clothing
Occupational and Physical Therapy
Podcasts
Open Source
OS Community
OS Tools
- OS Embroidery
- Open Source Loom
- Open Knit
- Textile Academy – OS Machines
- KiCAD
- A Cross Platform and Open Source Electronics Design Automation Suite
OS Software
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)
- Tech Kids Unlimited
- Intertwine Arts
Organizations Focusing on Disability Advocacy
- Anti-Ableism
- Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network (AWN)
- Disability Visibility Project (Online Community)
- Disability Rights New York
- 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
- Stop NY Mask Ban (Covid Advocacy)
- Your Rights to Wear a Mask in Public in Nassau County (ACLU Website)
- 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 Basics (CDC, August 2024)
- 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)
- Horton, Sarah, and David Sloan. What Every Engineer Should Know about Digital Accessibility. First edition., CRC Press, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003288060.
- Cooper Hewitt Guidelines for Image Description
Tactile Arts & Graphics
- Tactile Graphics – a resource for tactile graphic design and fabrication. Updated guidelines for 2022.
- Creating Tactile Art, Cheryl Fogle-Hatch, MuseumSenses
- How tactile graphics can help end image poverty | MIT Technology Review
- How to Create an Effective Tactile Graphic – Equal Entry
- Guidelines and Standards for Tactile Graphics | Braille Authority of North America (a good guide for “standard” tactile graphics)
Disability Studies (Books) Many Available in the Ability Project Library
- 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)
- AI is going great for the blind (Robert Kingett, 2023)
- I Will Luddite AI (Technolabelism and AI) (Robert Kingett, 2024)
Museum, Curration, Exhibitions
- Cachia, Amanda. The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2024.
- Cachia, Amanda, editor. Curating Access : Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
- Lacey, Simon. The Multisensory Museum : Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space. Edited by Nina Sobol Levent and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
- Lupton, Ellen, et al. The Senses : Design beyond Vision. Edited by Ellen Lupton and Andrea Lipps, Copper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2018.
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)
- ITP Design Lab (tutorials and feedback)
- ITP Doc Lab (support for documenting projects)
- Online American Sign Language training