DEI Resources

 

DEI Resources

The list below is not exhaustive. New resources to help you and your organization through the diversity, equity, equality, inclusion and accessiblity journey continue to be available. This list can get you started learning more about this important initiative.

Organizations/Groups

Books

  • Demystifying Disability: What to know, what to say, and how to be an ally by Emily Ladau
  • Inclusive Growth: Future-proof your business by creating a diverse workplace by Toby Mildon
  • Pride Against Prejudice: Transforming Attitudes to Disability by Jenny Morris
  • Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias by Pragya Agarwal
  • The Senses: Design Beyond Vision by Ellen Lupton (design book exploring inclusive and multisensory design practices across disciplines)
  • We Can't Talk about That at Work!: How to Talk about Race, Religion, Politics, and Other Polarizing Topics by Mary-Frances Winters
  • What If? Short Stories to Spark Inclusion & Diversity Dialogue by Steve Robbins
  • White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

Articles

Videos

Toolkits/Guides

Resources on Accessibility

  • Accessible Social: A fantastic resource on how to make your social media content accessible.
  • Adobe Color Blind Check: Allows you to check a palette of colors and offers a colorblind simulator for the entire palette for the three most common types of color blindness
  • Adobe Contrast Check: This site allows you to check color contrast, WCAG compliance (AODA looks for 4.5:1 or AA compliance) and explains why the combinations work or are a miss.
  • AMI Integrated Described Best Practices: Provides seamless description throughout a video, ensuring that people of all abilities receive a similar viewing experience by incorporating descriptions into the main script. There is no requirement for an additional audio description layer.
  • AMI Post-Production Described Best Practices: When creating video content, these best practices can help you create accessible videos by adding described audio after production is complete.
  • PDF Accessibility Checker 2021: (PAC 2021): This is the industry standard when checking the accessibility of your PDF documents. It is a free download but is only available for Windows users.
  • WebAIM Contrast Checker: This site allows you to check color contrast and WCAG compliance (AODA looks for 4.5:1 or AA compliance) and explains why the combinations work or are a miss.
  • Who Can Use: This is an excellent website for checking color contrast and WCAG compliance and seeing how people with different color blindness see the same color combinations.

IDEA-Focused Photo Banks/Libraries

Articles from Forbes

Podcasts

  • Chax Chat Accessibility Podcast
  • United in Accessibility (IAAP)
  • The Accessible Stall
  • Disability Visibility Podcast
  • Included: The Disability Equity Podcast