Design for accessibility: General resources

Ball, Don (editor), "Disability design: summary report from a field scan," National Endowment for the Arts, October 2021

Boys, Jos, Doing disability differently : an alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability and designing for everyday life, Routledge, NA2545.A1 B69 2014

Boys, Jos (editor), Disability, space, architecture : a reader, Routledge, NA2545.A1 D57 2017

Dokumac, Arseli, Activist affordances: how disabled people improvise more habitable worlds, HV1568 .D64 2023

Eddy, Marta Bordas, et al; Natalia Pérez Liebergesell (editor), Four wheelchair-user architects, Gustavo Gili, NA2545 .P5F68 2017

Gleeson, Brendan, Geographies of disability, Routledge, 1998 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Guffey, Elizabeth E., Designing disability: symbols, space, society, Bloomsbury, NA2545.P5 G79 2018

Housing accessibility,” Chapter 11A, California Building Code, Title 24, Part 2, Volume 1, 2019, p. 464 (Ebook available via MadCad.com)

Lepofsky, David (narrator), "Ryerson's new Student Learning Centre fails accessibility test," Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance (AODA Alliance), October 29, 2017 (via YouTube)

Lidwell, William, The pocket universal principles of design : 150 essential tools for architects, artists, designers, developers, engineers, inventors, and makers, Quarto Publishing Group, 2015 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Metzger, Christoph, Building for dementia, Jovis, NA2545.M4 M48 2018

Meuser, Philip (editor), Accessibility and wayfinding, DOM Publishers, NA2545.P5 A29 2019

Meuser, Philip, Accessible architecture, 2 revised ed., DOM Publishers, NA2545.P5 A29 2012

Molenbroek, Johan F.M., et al (editors), A friendly rest room : developing toilets of the future for disabled and elderly people, IOS Press, 2011 (via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Papalia, Carmen, "A new model for access in the museum," Disability Studies Quarterly, Vol.35, #3, 2013 (Part of a double issue: Museum experience and blindness)

Rhoads, Marcela A.,  Applying the ADA: designing for the 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act standards for accessible design in multiple building types, John Wiley, 2013 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Skiba, I. & Züger, R., Basics barrier-free planning, Birkhäuser, 2017 (PDFs available via DeGruyter.com)

Williamson, Bess, Accessible America : a history of disability and design, New York University Press, HV1553.W55 2019

Williamson, Bess, "The people's sidewalks: designing Berkeley's wheelchair route, 1970-1974," Boom: A Journal of California, Spring 2012, p.49-52

Hamraie, Aimi, “Universal design research as a new materialist practice,” Disability Studies Quarterly, Vol.32, #4, 2012

Jain, Kritisha Kantilal, "Making makerspaces more accessible for people with visual impairment: understanding user needs to reimagine solutions," Masters thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021

Maisel, Jordana, et al, Inclusive design : implementation and evaluation, Routledge, NA2750 .M185 2018

Wolfson, Penny Lynne, Enwheeled: two centuries of wheelchair design, from furniture to film (Master's thesis), Parson School of Design, 2014

British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC], "The disabled refugee inventor who built an electric bike," BBC News, March 26, 2016

Hendren, Sara & Caitrin Lynch, “This counts too: engineering at home: manifesto,” January 17, 2016 (via engineeringathome.org). (See also: “Adaptions" page)

Willison, Karin, "3 disability life hacks inspired by MacGyver," The Ability Toolbox, (blog post), [no date]

“The Americans with Disabilities Act after 25 years,” Disability Studies Quarterly, Vol.35, #3, 2015 (Special issue)

Charlton, James I., Nothing about us without us: disability, oppression and empowerment, University of California Press, 1998 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Fleischer, Doris & Frieda Zames, "The disability rights movement: from charity to confrontation," Temple University Press, 2011 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Harris, Jasmine E., "The aesthetics of disability," Columbia Law Review, May 2019, p.895-972 (via columbialawreview.org)

Nelson Alondra, Body and soul: the Black Panther Party and the fight against medical discrimination, University of Minnesota Press, 2011 (Ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Schweik, Susan M., The ugly laws: disability in public, New York University, 2009 (Ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Vaughn, Alex, "Disabled design history & rights: 101," Design With Disabled People Now [undated]

Williamson, Bess, "The people's sidewalks: designing Berkeley's wheelchair route, 1970-1974," Boom: A Journal of California, Spring 2012, p.49-52

Boys, Jos, “Cripping Spaces? On Dis/Abling Phenomenology: In Architecture,” Log, #42, 2018, p.55–66 (PDF via Jstor)

Boys, Jos (editor), Disability, space, architecture : a reader, Routledge, NA2545.A1 D57 2017

Davidson, Michael, Concerto for the left hand : disability and the defamiliar body, University of Michigan Press, 2008 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Davis, Lennard J., et al (editors), The disability studies reader, Routledge, HV1568 .D5696 2021 (ebook also available via Proquest Ebook Central)

Fritsch, Kelly, “Desiring disability differently: neoliberalism, heterotopic imagination and intracorporeal reconfigurations,” Foucault Studies, June 2015, p.43-66 (via ResearchGate)

Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie, "Misfits: a feminist materialist disability concept," Hypatia, Vol.26, #3, 2011, p.591-609 (PDF via JStor)

Gissen, David, The architecture of disability : buildings, cities, and landscapes beyond access, University of Minnesota Press, NA2500 .G47 2022

Hall, Melinda Gann, The bioethics of enhancement : transhumanism, disability, and biopolitics, Lexington Books, 2017 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Hamraie, Aimi, Building access : universal design and the politics of disability, University of Minnesota Press, NA2547.H36 2017

Hamraie, Aimi, “Universal design research as a new materialist practice,” Disability Studies Quarterly, Vol.32, #4, 2012

Kafer, Alison, Feminist, queer, crip, Indiana University Press, 2013 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

McRuer, Robert, Crip theory: cultural signs of queerness and disability, New York University Press, 2006 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Samuels, Ellen & Elizabeth Freeman, Crip Temporalities, Duke University Press, HV1568 .C85 2021

Siebers, Tobin, Disability aesthetics, University of Michigan Press, HV1568.2 .S535 2010

Yi, Chun-Shan (Sandie), Crip Couture as radical care: fashion, art therapy, and disability art, 2022. University of Illinois at Chicago, PhD dissertation (PDF via indigo.uic.edu)

Bliss, Vanessa Grace, "The past, present and future of adaptive design," Disability Belongs, September 26, 2023

Farra, Emily, "This is what's missing in fashion's inclusivity movement," Vogue, August 27, 2021

Horn, Xian, et al., "Fashion beyond function: ideals of beauty, design, and disability," Cooper Hewitt, April 6, 2019 (Panel discussion, 1:22:48 duration)

Kohlstedt, Kurt, "Single Handed," via 99percentinvisible.org. Six-part series published March 31 - April 17, 2025.

Panek, Tracey, "Levi's - an early adopter of functional fashion," Levi Strauss & Co., April 10, 2019

Thomas, Stephanie, "Fashion styling for people with disabilities," TEDx Talks, September 14, 2016

"Embracing differences: Understanding and designing for neurodiversity," Metropolis, November 14, 2023

PAS 6463:2022: Design for the mind - Neurodiversity and the built environment - Guide, The British Standards Institution, 2022

Shew, Ashley, "The neurodivergent resistance," Against technoableism : rethinking who needs improvement, W.W. Norton & Company, HV1568 .S54 2023

Strathausen, Carsten, "Neuroaesthetics," Bioaesthetics : making sense of life in science and the arts, University of Minnesota Press, NX180.S3 S77 2017

Cheyne, Ria, "Horror: fearful bodyminds," in Disability, literature, genre: representation and affect in contemporary fiction, Liverpool University Press, 2019, p.27-52 (PDF via JStor)

Dawsey, Jill & Isabel Casso, For dear life : art, medicine, and disability, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, N8355 .D39 2024

"Disability culture," Art in America, October 2022 (Theme issue)

"Experiments in art, access, & technology," exhibit curated by Vanessa hang and Lindsey D. Felt for Leonardo CripTech Incubator (2023-2024)

Felt, Lindsey Dolich, "Cyberpunk's other hackers: the girls who were plugged in," Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, Vol.5, #1, 2019 

"Film and disability," Revue Canadienne d’Études Cinématographiques / Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Vol.17, #1, 2008 (Special issue) (PDF via JStor)

Papalia, Carmen, "A new model for access in the museum," Disability Studies Quarterly, Vol.35, #3, 2013 (Part of a double issue: Museum experience and blindness)

Siebers, Tobin, Disability aesthetics, The University of Michigan Press, HV1568.2 .S535 2010

Sins Invalid, a performance project celebrating artists with disabilities - specifically artists of color and LGBTQ communities.

Sweed, Yasmine, "New directions in disability narrative: cyborgs and redefining disability in young adult literature," Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, #40, 2020, p.186-211 (PDF via JStor)

Yi, Chun-Shan (Sandie), Crip Couture as radical care: fashion, art therapy, and disability art, 2022. University of Illinois at Chicago, PhD dissertation (PDF via indigo.uic.edu)

Charlton, James I., Nothing about us without us: disability, oppression and empowerment, University of California Press, 1998 (ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Dokumaç, Arseli, Activist affordances : how disabled people improvise more habitable worlds, Duke University Press, HV1568 .D64 2023

Ladau, Emily, Demystifying disability : what to know, what to say, and how to be an ally, Ten Speed Press, HV3011 .L33 2021

McRuer, Robert, Crip times : disability, globalization, and resistance, New York University Press, HV1568 .M372 2018 (ebook also available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Mingus, Mia, "Access intimacy, interdependence and disability justice," Leaving Evidence, April 12, 2017

Ray, Sarah & Jay Sibara (editors), Disability studies and the environmental humanities: toward an eco-crip theory, Nebraska Press, 2017 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Snyder, Sharon L. & David T. Mitchell, Cultural locations of disability, University of Chicago Press, 2006 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Yergeau, Melanie, "Disability hactivism," Computers and Composition Online, [no date]

Brashear, Regan (Director), Fixed: the science/fiction of human enhancement, Making Change Media, 2014 (via Kanopy) (watch using your Los Angeles Public Library card and pin number)

Da Costa, Beatriz & Kavita Philip (editors), Tactical biopolitics : art, activism, and technoscience, MIT Press, 2008 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Hall, Melinda Gann, The bioethics of enhancement : transhumanism, disability, and biopolitics, Lexington Books, 2017 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Hamraie, Aimi & Kelly Fritsch, “Crip technoscience manifesto,” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, Vol.5, #1, 2019 (via catalystjournal.org)

Hendren, Sara, "All technology is assistive: six design rules on disability," from the book, Making things and drawing boundaries: experiments in the digital humanities, Jentery Sayers (editor), University of Minnesota Press, 2017 (PDF via JStor)

Mills, Mara, "On disability and cybernetics: Helen Keller, Norbert Wiener, and the hearing glove," differences, Vol.22, #2-3, p.74-111 (PDF via University of Pennsylvania, Department of English, Disability and Modernism Conference readings) 

Shew, Ashley, Against technoableism : rethinking who needs improvement, W.W. Norton & Company, HV1568 .S54 2023

Stern, Jonathan, "A machine to hear for them: on the very possibility of sound's reproduction," Cultural Studies, Vol.15, #2, 2001, p.259-294 (PDF via xenopraxis.net)

Baldwin, Catherine A., “Universal Design for Learning,” Reference & User Services Quarterly, Vol.59, #3/4, 2021, p.173–76 (PDF via JSTOR)

Chodock, Ted & Elizabeth Dolinger, "Applying universal design to information literacy: teaching students who learn differently at Landmark College," Reference & User Services Quarterly, Vol.49, #1, 2009, p.24-32 (PDF via JSTOR) 

Dolmage, Jay Tmothy, “Universal Design,” in Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education, University of Michigan Press, 2017, p.115–52 (PDF via JSTOR)

"About Universal Design for Learning," Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST), 2022