Resources

Disability Justice Resource Hub

The University of Maryland Baltimore, School of Medicine, Center for Disability Justice has curated a selection of online resources about disability, disability justice, accessibility and health equity. The resources included have been chosen by the Center staff and are not an official endorsement of materials. Resources are subject to change over time (resources may be added and removed) to reflect updates in terminology, timeliness of research, availability and more.

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What is Disability Justice?

Definitions, contexts, and principles of what disability justice is.

Disability Justice Framework

Sins Invalid: 10 Principles of Disability Justice

Disability & Philanthropy Forum Resource Library: What is Disability Justice?

Conceptual Models of Disability

Other Centers and Organizations Working on Disability Justice

Other Academic Centers and nonprofit organizations that research, train, and educate about disability justice.

John Hopkins Disability Health Research Center

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Center for Racial and Disability Justice

Center for Disability Justice Research: Health Equity, Education and Creativity at California State University

Kennedy Krieger National Center for Disability, Equity, and Intersectionality

Disability Justice Project

Alliance for Disability in Health Care Education

Sins Invalid

Related Research

A small selection of recent open-access journal articles about disability, disability justice, mobility, rehabilitation, equity, and accessibility.

Centering Social Justice and Equity in Research on Accessibility to Public Buildings for Individuals with Mobility Disabilities: A scoping review(2024)

Training an Anti-Ableist Physical Therapist Workforce: Critical Perspectives of Health Care Education That Contribute to Health Inequities for People With Disabilities(2024)

Centering disability visibility in reproductive health care: Dismantling barriers to achieve reproductive equity (2023)

Advancing Health Equity and Reducing Health Disparities for People with Disabilities In The United States(2022)

Website Accessibility Tips

Overarching guidelines for ensuring a website is fully accessible to all users.

Ten Tips for an Accessible Website

How to Design an Accessible Website (A Complete Guide)

The A11y Project: Community-Driven Effort to Make Digital Accessibility Easier

Atkinson Hyperlegible Free Font from the Braille Institute

UMB Digital Accessibility Training Videos

Resources for Writing Alt Text

Resources for making websites and social media accessible to people with blindness and low vision.

How to Write Alt Text and Image Descriptions

Write helpful Alt Text to describe images

Accessibility: Image Alt text best practices

Color Use Guides

Resources for informing color use in website branding and graphics with emphasis on creating contrast for legibility while considering types of color blindness.

Color Choices That Are Accessible

Brand Guidelines: Color & Type