[LIBRARYDIR] Study Room usage signage and ADA accessibility

[Heath Hayden]

Revision: font on signs posted in study rooms must be 5/8" based on 6 feet (or less) space, which applies to most of our study rooms. This evens out to 60pt font size. This is still really large.

I have found other higher ed institutions with clear accessibility policies that use 18pt font and higher as the threshold. I was wondering if anyone had any specifications for signage in the library based on ADA accessibility standards. Standards being used are these: https://www.ada.gov/regs2010/2010ADAStandards/2010ADAstandards.htm#marker-1009000

Heath

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Subject: RE: Study Room usage signage and ADA accessibility

Is 77pt for accessibility Bellevue's internal policy? I don't know of that being the case at LWTech, and I know that there are plenty of signs that have smaller font than 77pt (may not be in compliance).

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Subject: [LIBRARYDIR] Study Room usage signage and ADA accessibility

All:

I have an email in to our DRC contacts on campus, but wanted to query here as well.

We are updating our signage in the study rooms in the library due to noise complaints and space considerations that are continually a problem. I found out yesterday that the font on the signs has to be a minimum of 77pt, which would turn a simple printout of a sign into a larger poster. I am attaching the ADA checklist and the proposed change of the study room signage to this message.

Has anyone taken this into consideration in their institutions? If you have, what guidelines did you follow. 77pt font for a sign in a study room seems excessive to me, but I'd like to hear from others.

Thank you in advance.

Heath Ray Hayden, MLIS, MA
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