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Bulletin Board, Blackboard, and Dry-Erase/White Board Purchase, and Installation Guidelines

This protocol addresses the needs of all users to access standard bulletin boards, blackboards, and white/dry-erase boards. Currently, ADA has guidelines for signage, but does not include bulletin board, blackboard, or white board guidelines. ADA requires that signs be hung at 60” to the mid-height of the sign (ADA, 2002). Although this is useful for signs, 60” places small boards too high for the reach of many users.

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Accessible Bulletin Boards  (PDF File) (ACCESS-ed)

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Posted by: AmaraTang on Tue Nov 24, 2020 at 1:20 p.m.

I found this tip sheet helpful for guiding purchase and installation of boards, especially for determining how to hang them. However, I wonder if more information could be added considering the environment surrounding the board (i.e. optimizing view of the board and the path to it).

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Posted by: nsfetter on Tue Nov 29, 2022 at 5:40 p.m.

I found this tip sheet to be helpful in guiding the purchase and design of a bulletin board, blackboard, and Dry-Erase/ White board. I think the purchasing guide was clear and gave an ideal dimension size to purchase. The installation guide was also helpful with using both word and pictures to determine best installation.

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Posted by: AlecGazdik on Tue Apr 18, 2023 at 5:18 p.m.

Not only were the purchasing guidelines insightful, the installation guidelines were as well. The importance of these tools in a classroom are important and they should be able to be utilized by everyone. The visuals were very helpful as well.

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Posted by: smfranks on Sun Apr 21, 2024 at 9:47 p.m.

I would have expected there to me more guidelines. But i guess there really isn't any more one could do besides install it at the right height in order to be accessible for all disabilities, and ages.

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Posted by: mgedemer on Wed Nov 20, 2024 at 3:40 p.m.

The guidelines here are great! Just like the regulations fail to include items like white boards, even though they are essential in every classroom, we still fail to account for mounting and purchasing in an accessible way. Well done!

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