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Please join the spring webinar trainings on a variety of topics related to the ADA from services animals to the built environment and more offered by the New England ADA. Title I Employment Friday, March 19, 2021 Workshop Virtual 10:00 am-11:30 am ADA for State and Municipal Government Wednesday…
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Testing and co-designing prototypes for museums' inclusive mechanical and digital interactives and tactile experiences is the smart thing to do. But how can museums conduct hands-on sessions during a pandemic when it's not safe for the test facilitators and the reviewers to be in the same room? In…
Poster with logo, year and title saying The 8th International Conference for Universal Design in the Cloud 2021
The International Association for Universal Design (IAUD) will hold the "8th International Conference for Universal Design in the Cloud 2021 —Seminar Series—". This is a general term for online international conferences that will be held multiple times as a prelude to the "9th International…
Poster saying Free online course, Unidesign - Universal and Inclusive design for better human environments
UniDesign is a free multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary international educational programme on the topics of universal and inclusive design (topics of design, difficulty with mobility or perception, and related topics on quality of human environment) from the perspective of architecture, civil…
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Please join the February webinar trainings on facility access, employment and the ADA and more. Know Your Rights and Responsibilities: Disability Issues in Employment, Virtual Tuesday, February 9, 2021 10:00 am-12:00 pm   Role of the ADA Coordinator, Self-Evaluation and Title II, Virtual…
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In this newsletter, we announce three upcoming webcasts in the Eliza Forrest Kaye Bromfield Memorial Webcast Series, share some new and exciting global stories, as well as internal updates.  Read the full newsletter here.  If you would like to sign up to receive future newsletters, you can do so…
Anna Heringer
German architect Anna Heringer's 'Anandaloy' is a community center and workshop in Bangladesh that is made from mud and bamboo. located in Rudrapur, a village in the country's Dinajpur district. The two-story building contains a therapy center for people with disabilities at ground level and a fair…
Junko Kobayashi
Until the early 1980s, many public toilets in Japan were minimally equipped with only the necessary basic fixtures. They were dirty, dimly lit and smelly, with insufficient cleaning. At that time, many public toilets were called 4K (Kurai, Kowai, Kitanai, Kusai in Japanese) meaning “Dark, Scary,…
Gary Talbot
The Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs’ (CDMRP), Spinal Cord Injury Research Program (SCIRP) consumer advocate Gary Talbot recently participated in the evaluation of research applications submitted to the SCIRP. Gary Talbot was nominated for participation in the program by the…
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Please join the November webinar trainings on the intersection of the ADA and COVID 19, web accessibility and nonapparent disabilities offered by the New England ADA. The ADA Coalition of Connecticut (ADACC) State, CT Friday, November 6, 2020 Conference Web Accessibility: What? Why? How? No…