Navigating requirements, standards, and best practices around accessible recreation can be overwhelming. Everyone, regardless of age or ability, benefits from parks and recreation opportunities. For communities to fully benefit from parks and recreation opportunities, your electronic communications, program offerings, and facilities must all be accessible to people with disabilities. The National Center on Accessibility (NCA), a program of the Eppley […]
Category: Accessibility
A Briefing from the National Center on Accessibility: Prototyping Tactile Models
The National Center on Accessibility, now a part of the Eppley Institute, provides a wide range of accessibility-based services including training, consulting, advising, and technical assistance. One of the services, is the testing of prototypes with people with many different types of disabilities. This briefing, however, focus is on people who are blind or have vision impairments for this article. […]
National Center on Accessibility Continues Extraordinary 25 Plus Year Record Unites with Eppley Institute for Parks and Public Lands
Indiana University’s National Center on Accessibility, one of the first institutions focusing on recreation access for people with disabilities, continues to serve the nation with technical assistance and training since it was created in 1993. As a unit, the National Center on Accessibility (NCA) serves national, state, and local parks working across the nation. Since 1993, NCA is […]
