• National Endowment for the Arts Office for Accessibility​
  

• NEA Careers in the Arts Toolkit for People with Disabilities –​ an online resource promoting equity, access, and inclusion for people with disabilities seeking careers in the arts with tailored sections to support artists with disabilities in their career path and those who play a significant role in offering opportunities for training and employment.  
  

• Accessibility Planning and Resource Guide for Cultural Administrators – a free ebook that provides guidance to cultural administrators on how to achieve accessible and inclusive programming for everyone including individuals with disabilities and older adults.
  
• Design for Accessibility: A Cultural Administrator’s Handbook – a free PDF file designed to help organizations not only comply with Section 504 and the Americans with Disabilities Act, but to assist in making access an integral part of planning, mission, programs, outreach, meetings, budget and staffing.
  
• Organizations that receive f​unding from the Wisconsin Arts Board must be accessible and inclusive of all. Grant recipients are expected to have an accessibility evaluation of their organization in their files for their records. Below are two acceptable forms:
  
• ​Section 504 Self-Evaluation Workbook – This Program Evaluation Workbook is designed to assist staff of Endowment grant recipients in evaluating the current state of accessibility of their programs and activities to disabled visitors and employees.​
  
• Arts & Culture Accessibility Self-Assessment from Open Door Arts​ –​ this free, comprehensive, fully electronic tool was created specifically to help arts and cultural organizations understand and improve their accessibility.
• In the Arts Board grant applications, there is a question about facility accessibility. Design standards for parking, entrances, restrooms, level access, signage,and accomodations for service animals are linked here: Design for Accessibility: A Cultural Administrator’s Handbook.
  
• This Tip Sheet​ – an easy-to-read explanation of the 2010 revisions to the Americans with Disabilities Act Titles II and III that impact arts and cultural organizations, including requirements for ticketing, mobility devices, service animals, and new construction.
  
• Alt Text as Poetry –​ a collaborative art project providing an interesting point of view on alternative text, encouraging creativity and care when thinking about alt text.

Additional Resources​

** We encourage you to take a look at, or even complete the self-assessment tool​ prior to the webinar, but the webinar will be beneficial to all **