Research Guides: Accessibility at NYU Libraries: Overview

Accessibility Services in the Libraries

Accessibility Services at NYU Libraries
Provides an overview of the services offered to students and other community members to support accessibility and accommodations within the Libraries.

Introduction

This Guide offers a set of resources to support inclusion and accessibility in the Libraries.

Resources provided here are supplemental to synchronous training offered to the Division of Libraries. Materials from the synchronous training will be posted on this Guide for on demand viewing.

Topics include:

Accessible meetings
Email and Social Media communications
Making accessible documents (Google suite, Microsoft suite, and PDFs)
Captions and transcripts (making media accessible)
Tips for making accessible surveys
LibGuides accessibility
Principles of web accessibility
Physical accessibility of NYU Libraries
Accessibility services @ NYU Libraries

Accessibility Resources at NYU

Accessibility Resources at NYU
NYU's Office of Digital Accessibility provides a variety of support and resources to ensure digital accessibility across the University.
How-to-Guides for accessibility at NYU
These guides provide support in using a variety of tools, resources, and services at NYU to ensure accessibility and inclusion.
Accessibility Best Practices for Remote Instruction/Work
A toolkit to incorporate digital accessibility practices when sharing digital content and interacting with the NYU community online.
Moses Center for Student Accessibility
New York University is committed to providing equal educational opportunity and participation for all students. The Moses Center for Student Accessibility (CSA) works with NYU students to determine and implement appropriate and reasonable accommodations as well as access available programs and resources to support equal access to a world-class education.
NYU's Office of Equal Opportunity
The Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) serves as New York University’s (NYU) coordinator for compliance with the employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act and other federal, state, and local analogues. Collectively, these laws require employers to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified prospective and current employees with disabilities, unless doing so would cause undue hardship.
NYU's Workplace Accessibility and Inclusion Toolkit
These resources have been thoughtfully selected for ease of access to literature and tools from across NYU and trusted organizations.

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