Being intentional and inclusive in the design of your library’s communications, in both physical and digital library spaces, can support and enrich your library’s accessibility, diversity, and equity. The graphics, language, or format selected for communications provide an opportunity to create more welcoming spaces which reflect and represent your community’s diversity, including—but not limited to—race, gender, or neurodiversity. Explore the importance of inclusion and representation in design and take a fresh look at how your library’s signage, marketing materials, and online communication can contribute to a sense of belonging for all.

Presented by: Mollie Peuler, eLearning Librarian, Appalachian State University (NC)

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Related Resources and Links

Neurodiversity

• Accessibility according to actual people with disabilities
• Supplemental Guidance to WCAG 2
• How Can Literary Spaces Support Neurodivergent Readers and Writers? by Jess deCourcy Hinds, 2023
• WebJunction webinar, Serving the Underserved: Children with Disabilities at Your Library
• What is Neurodiversity? An Infographic, hellomichelleswan.com
• Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities, W3C Working Group

Image Collections

• Disabled And Here Collection
• Age-positive image library
• Nappy Photo Collection
• The Gender Spectrum Collection
• WOCinTech
• Better Allies list of sites that specialize in stock photos and illustrations featuring people from underrepresented groups
• Guidelines on Inclusive Language and Images in Scholarly Communication
• Collection of additional Image Resources, WebJunction

On Language

• APA Style Bias-Free Language
• Words at Work

Links shared in Chat

• Dyslexia Font and Style Guide, The Reading Well
  
• Communicating Effectively with People with Disabilities, ADA.gov
  
• Image Sources, collected by WebJunction
• Advancing Language for Equity & Inclusion, An Equity Fluent Leadership Playbook
• Gender Decoder, finding subtle bias
• I am Disabled: On Identity-First Versus People-First Language
• Disability Language Style Guide, National Center on Disability and Journalism
• Disability Writing & Journalism Guidelines, Center for Disability Rights
• Accessible Libraries, Public Library Accessibility Resource Centre