Blog for the Accessibility Excellence project.
Over the past few months, we have been working with the sites and museums in the Pennsylvania Bureau of Historic Sites and Museums (BHSM) as they develop new accessibility plans using our Action Planning Template. This gave the Accessibility Excellence project team more feedback on the template’s usability and helped BHSM leadership better understand its …
Short answer: a lot! In this post, we’ll share some recent updates and introduce the Action Planning partnership that will be the subject of next month’s blog post. As the project comes up to a year after launch, we are very interested in learning more about how different cultural organizations are using it. If you …
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Today we will keep things short while many of you are deep into summer visitors and events. We are spotlighting another top resource of our regional ADA Center. The Mid Atlantic ADA Center regularly posts its E-Bulletin with news on health, culture, the arts, and upcoming trainings. The E-Bulletin: July 4, 2023 under the Arts and Culture …
The recorded webinar Introduction to Accessibility Excellence (from Thursday, January 26, 2023, 1:00-2:00pm) is now live on the PA Museums YouTube channel. Join Project Manager Jenny Angell for an overview of the Accessibility Excellence project. You will learn about how the project’s tools can help you measure your organization’s accessibility baseline, plan for future improvements, and support the organizational change that is crucial …
We all benefit from an inclusive mindset with digital accessibility. In a 2014 article in Wired, World Wide Web creator and W3C co-founder Tim Berners-Lee said, “People with disabilities must be able to use the web, and can do so when standards bodies, developers and content authors all do their part. An accessible web is …
Want to learn more about how to use the Accessibility Excellence Project in your museum, historic site, or cultural organization? PA Museums is hosting a series of webinars that provide an overview on the project and informal, deep-dive conversations on more specific topics in accessibility: Thursday, January 26, 2023, 1:00-2:00pm: Introduction to Accessibility Excellence Join Project Manager Jenny Angell …
Support is here from your regional ADA Centers. One of the sources we depend on in the toolkit is the ADA National Network and the Regional ADA Centers for resources, free training, and low-cost certifications. The ADA Centers and their supportive staff know we are learning as we are working to improve our services to …
In this blog, you can find additional information on specific accessibility topics, new resources, and updates from museum staff about their own accessibility journeys. If you are interested in writing a guest post for the blog or have a topic you’d like us to discuss, you can email us at accessibilityexcellence@pamuseums.org. Read more Accessibility Excellence …