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Wisconsin Arts Board urges detailed accessibility plans, including disability accommodations and language access
Summary
WAB staff told applicants to describe accessibility measures in applications, use census links to document community needs, and consider ASL, audio description and language access; NEA reporting requirements shape some questions.
Wisconsin Arts Board staff told applicants during an information session that accessibility information — including disability accommodations and language access plans — should be explicit in Creative Communities applications.
“The more you can tell the panel, the better off they'll understand the nature of the work that you're doing in that space,” Caitlin, a Wisconsin Arts Board staff member, told applicants discussing a dialogic oral‑history/project prototype. She and other staff suggested practical accommodations such as American Sign Language interpreters with advance…
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