Stories of Inclusion: ADA@25 and
Universal Design at Cultural Institutions
Presented in collaboration with the
Education Committee (EdCom)and Diversity Committee (DivCom), Professional
Networks of the American Alliance of Museums. Supported by the Coalition to
Advance Learning in Archives, Libraries and Museums, a project of the Institute
of Museum and Library Services (IMLS); and the Museum Access Consortium, New
York (MAC) This project was supported in part by a grant from IMLS. Any views,
finding, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not
necessarily represent those of IMLS.
In this webcast, accessibility experts
and advocates discuss the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the
principles of Universal Design in the context of larger social movements and the
spectrum of regulations and recommendations that impact museums, libraries,
archives and other cultural institutions.
Presenters
Valerie
Fletcher,
executive director, Institute for Human Centered Design, Boston; Betty Siegel, director of VSA and
Accessibility, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington,
DC; Beth Ziebarth, director, Smithsonian Institution
Accessibility Program, Washington, DC; Rebecca Bradley,
manager of access programs, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Rebecca
McGinnis, senior museum educator, access
& community programs, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Katya Pereyaslavska, librarian, accessibility initiatives, and
visiting program officer, Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC;
ScholarsPortal, Ontario Council of University Libraries, Toronto; Christine Reich,
director of exhibit development and conservation, Museum of Science,
Boston; Sheri
Levinsky-Raskin, assistant vice
president, education & evaluation, Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, New
York, NY; Francesca
Rosenberg, director of community and access, Museum of Modern Art, New
York; Edward
Van Gemert, vice provost for libraries, University of Wisconsin,
Madison (and ARL Accessibility and
Universal Design Working Group)