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Wisconsin Arts Board urges applicants to plan for disability and language access in applications
Summary
Board staff recommended applicants describe likely access needs and concrete accommodations — including ASL interpreters, audio descriptions and translation — and to use census links in the application to document community needs.
Wisconsin Arts Board staff told grant applicants they should identify anticipated accessibility needs and describe concrete steps to make projects accessible to people with disabilities and to non-English speakers.
"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," a board staff member said when asked which disabilities applicants should address. Staff gave…
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