ADA Self-Assessment Survey and Planning Tool

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ADA Self Assessment Survey and Planning Tool

The Cultural Access Network has instituted this new self-assessment and ADA planning tool in direct response to comments from arts organizations as they endeavored to write a comprehensive and usable ADA plan that would assist them in their efforts to make their programs and facilities accessible to people with disabilities. In developing this tool with the NJ State Council on the Arts, the Cultural Access Network relied heavily on Federal, State, and service organization generated guidelines and survey tools such as the ADA Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG), the National Endowment for the Arts’ Arts Accessibility Checklist, VSA arts of Massachusetts’ Cultural Facility Access Survey and Teaching Instrument, and Adaptive Environments Centers’ ADA Title II Action Guide. This document incorporates information and guidance from the above resources, as well as “best practices” and practical advice from Cultural Access Network members, arts leaders and people with disabilities. While it is impossible for this document to provide all necessary support material for each organization’s unique circumstances, this new tool provides a compilation of information that can be used by cultural institutions in their process of ensuring the arts in New Jersey are accessible to people with disabilities.

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The Cultural Access Network is a co-sponsored project of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts / Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.