Legal Resources for Getting Public Benefits

NLS recently published an Accessibility Guide as a resource to help content creators ensure the accessibility of information for individuals with disabilities. When resources, information, and services are not accessible, then people with disabilities are unfairly barred from access. People with disabilities may use assistive technology – including screen readers, voice recognition software, and video relay services – to interact with digital content. However, many people with disabilities do not use aids and rely on the accessibility of digital content. It is important to create content that is compatible with that assistive technology, and that is accessible for people with disabilities without any aids or assistive technology.

Publication of this Accessibility Guide as made possible through a grant from The FISA Foundation for our Criminal Record Clearing for Individuals with Disabilities Project which allowed NLS to spread the word about the availability of criminal record clearing to disability-serving organizations and their clients as well as provide expungement/sealing services to numerous clients with disabilities.  NLS is also examining our organizational practices with regard to the many clients with disabilities seeking our services and plans to improve accessibility.