Closing the Information Gap: Making COVID-19 Information Accessible for People with Disabilities

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• Personal Author:
  Anderson, Sarah M. ; Flores, Alina L. ; Baldwin, Laura Z. ; Phillips, Carolyn P. ; Meunier, Jennifer
• Corporate Authors:
  CDC Foundation. ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Design. Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation.
• Description:
  It is essential that people with disabilities have equitable access to COVID-19 communication resources to protect themselves, their families, and their communities. The Accessible Materials and Culturally Relevant Messages for Individuals with Disabilities project aimed to deliver essential COVID-19 information in braille, American Sign Language (ASL), simplified text, and other alternative formats, along with providing additional tools and trainings that people with disabilities and organizations that serve them can use to apply the COVID-19 guidance. Lessons learned from this project can be implemented in future public health emergencies as well as in general public health messaging for people with disabilities. This project, led by Georgia Tech’s Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation (CIDI) and with technical assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was supported by the CDC Foundation, using funds from the CDC Foundation’s COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund.
  
  ATOB-V16.2-Anderson-et-al..pdf
  
  It is essential that people with disabilities have equitable access to COVID-19 communication resources to protect themselves, their families, and their communities. The Accessible Materials and Culturally Relevant Messages for Individuals with Disabilities project aimed to deliver essential COVID-19 information in braille, American Sign Language (ASL), simplified text, and other alternative formats, along with providing additional tools and trainings that people with disabilities and organizations that serve them can use to apply the COVID-19 guidance. Lessons learned from this project can be implemented in future public health emergencies as well as in general public health messaging for people with disabilities. This project, led by Georgia Tech’s Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation (CIDI) and with technical assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was supported by the CDC Foundation, using funds from the CDC Foundation’s COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund.
  
  ATOB-V16.2-Anderson-et-al..pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Acess To Information Consumer Health Information COVID-19 Delivery Of Health Care Disabled Persons Health Communication
• Series:
  Assistive Technology Outcomes and Benefits
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Pages in Document:
  p. 86-103
• Volume:
  16
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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