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Tip Sheets & Posterettes

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Developed by the ACCESS-ed team, these documents provide short practical hand-outs on specific UDE topics.

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Creating an Accessible Logo

This posterette provides guidelines to make universally designed logos.

R2D2 Center at UW-Milwaukee

(Word Document) Creating an Accessible Logo Posterette

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DARC Positon Description

Prepared in posterette format for handy distribution.

R2D2 Center at UW-Milwaukee

(Word Document) DARC Position Description Posterette

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Font Size for Accessible Media in the Classroom

These two Power Point slides provide a guideline to insure that the font size within print media are accessible when projected.

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(PowerPoint Presentation) How to Determine Font Size for Accessible Media

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No Manual Formatting

In word processed documents (that are not RTF files), formatting with the use of "B" or "I" or by manually organizing content with tabs, underlines, etc. provides structure and organization that is only available to sighted readers.  Using the "styles" features of word processing software is essential to creating documents that are universally designed. 

(Word Document) No Manual Formatting

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Procurement for Accessible Goods & Materials

This posterette describes recommended steps to ensure maximum accessibility when acquiring goods and materials - custom or "off the shelf".

R2D2 Center at UW-Milwaukee

(Word Document) Good and Materials Procurement

(Word Document) Procurement Tips

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Remodeling Posterette

Before engaging in a remodeling project, here are some tips for accessibility.

(Word Document) Remodeling Posterette

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Top 10 Tips for UD in the Classroom

A summary of the "basics" to introduce UD into your classroom.

R2D2 Center at UW-Milwaukee

(Word Document) Top 10 Tips for UD in the Classroom

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Writing EqTDs Posterette

The essential "bare-bones" of what needs to be in an equivalent text description and where the EqTD is placed in the document. Whenever you create a document, electronic or paper, any non-text element (picture, graph, "eye-candy") is not accessible to many individuals.

R2D2 Center at UW-Milwaukee

(Word Document) Writing EqTD's Posterette

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It took me several years of struggling with the heavy door to my building, sometimes having to wait until a person stronger came along, to realize that the door was an accessibility problem, not only for me, but for others as well. And I did not notice, until one of my students pointed it out, that the lack of signs that could be read from a distance at my university forced people with mobility impairments to expend a lot of energy unnecessarily, searching for rooms and offices. Although I have encountered this difficulty myself on days when walking was exhausting to me, I interpreted it, automatically, as a problem arising from my illness (as I did with the door), rather than as a problem arising from the built environment having been created for too narrow a range of people and situations.

Susan Wendell, author of
The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability