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How You Can Honor the ADA

• Hire qualified candidates with disabilities who come to you for job opportunities and learn about the different ways to accommodate workers with disabilities.
• Ask your town officials to redesign sidewalks to eliminate single step entrances in your town.
• Remember to make accessibility changes when you do a major renovation of a place the public uses.
• Make your domestic violence shelter, your senior program, your day care center, your voting place, your arts and recreation programs and other community services accessible so all can benefit.
• Hire ASL interpreters and learn how to use a TTY and other telecommunication services for Americans who are Deaf or have other communication disabilities.
• Support Vermont's work to build housing and community supports that make the choice to live at home and in the community - rather than in a nursing home or other institution - a real choice for more Vermonters of all ages.
• Make your Web site accessible.
• Learn about disability rights and services and find out how people with disabilities, designers and innovative policymakers are transforming programs and services for Americans with disabilities.
• Invite people with disabilities to your planning commissions, governing board and community forums and hold these meetings in accessible places.
• See an improvement in access in your town: better sidewalks, interpreters at town meetings, more restaurants and businesses that are accessible? Write a letter to the paper celebrating the change. No improvements? Write a different letter!
• Put information about your work or services in accessible formats (large print, Braille, or audio).
• Organize! Protest inaccessibility and work with your neighbors for change.
• Churches, synagogues, mosques and other places of worship are also often places where arts events, community suppers, discussion groups take place. Make your place of worship accessible to all.
• Support the national ADA Restoration Act and local efforts to implement the ADA and other disability rights laws in your community.
• Have a disability? Know someone who does? Get to know the ADA and other disability rights laws and speak up for implementation and enforcement.
• Celebrate the power we have to build inclusive communities: Together we can change the world.

• Vermont Center for Independent Living
  Phone: (800) 639-1522
  Web site: www.vcil.org
  E-mail Sarah Launderville: sdwhap at vcil.org
  
• Disability Business Technical Assistance Center
  New England ADA Center
  Phone: (800) 949-4232
  Web site: http://adaptiveenvironments.org/neada/site/home