Community Resources

Welcome to the Resources homepage. The information provided here is designed to assist all members of the Empire State University community to learn more about disability related issues in higher education.

A variety of resources are available for faculty, staff and students. A sampling of these resources have been included and organized into the categories below:

Scroll or link to information on this page:

• General Information
• Assistive Technology Product Information
• State Resources
• Regional Resources
  • Central NY
  • Rochester region
  • Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies and Metropolitan NY
  • Hudson Valley
  • Long Island
  • Buffalo region
  • Northeast NY (Capital District and North Country regions)

Additional resources:

• Creating Accessible Documents
• Universal Design

If you encounter a link that is no longer working, please notify the Office of Accessibility Resources and Services at: Disability.Services@esc.edu.

General Information

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• ADA home page (Link will open in new window)
• ADA Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG) for buildings and facilities (Link will open in new window)
• Adobe on-line conversion tool for PDFs (Link will open in new window) This tool will convert your PDF file to either html or text formats to allow for use with a screen reader.
• American Association of People with Disabilities (Link will open in new window)
• American Public Transportation Association (Link will open in new window) This site offers a searchable database of all public transportation authorities in the US on state and local levels.
• Association for Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) (Link will open in new window)
• Attention Deficit Disorder Association (Link will open in new window)
• George Washington University HEATH Resource Center (Link will open in new window)
• A Guide to Disability Rights Laws (Link will open in new window)
• Independent Living Center, searchable list of local offices(Link will open in new window)
• Job Accommodation Network (JAN) (Link will open in new window)
• Learning Ally (Link will open in new window)
• Learning Disabilities (LD) on-line (Link will open in new window)
• Making Accommodations: The Legal World of Students with Disabilities by Paul Grossman. (Link will open in new window)
• Microsoft's assistive technology partner in New York: Enable (Link will open in new window)
• National Center for Learning Disabilities (Link will open in new window)
• National Council on Disability (Link will open in new window)
• Northeast ADA & IT Center (Link will open in new window)
• Office of Civil Rights (OCR) (Link will open in new window)
• State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies (Link will open in a new window)
• University of Washington DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) Program (Link will open in new window)
• U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs (Link will open in new window)
• U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (Link will open in new window)

Additional web resources put together by the University of Kansas and the University of Wisconsin. (Links will open in new window)

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Assistive Technology Product Information

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(Please note: this information is provided to inform students of some of their options for assistive technology. This is not an exhaustive list and Accessibility Resources & Services does not endorse these products. You should research the options to determine which, if any, of these products (or others) would assist you in your studies.)

• Abbyy Fine Reader (Link will open in new window)
• Dolphin Computer Access (Link will open in new window)
• Dragon Naturally Speaking by Nuance (Link will open in new window)
• JAWS by Freedom Scientific (Link will open in new window)
• Low Vision Products from Enhanced Vision (Link will open in new window)
• Kurzweil Educational Systems, manufacturers of Kurzweil 1000 and Kurzweil 3000. (Link will open in new window)
• Natural Reader (Link will open in new window)
• OmniPage by Nuance (Link will open in new window)
• Premier Assistive Technology (Link will open in new window)
• ZoomText by AI Squared (Link will open in new window)

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State Resources

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The following links are resources that can be found within New York State. In some instances, you can search the web site to find your local resources.

• Learning Disabilities Association of New York State (Link will open in new window)
• NYS Division of Human Rights (Link will open in new window)
• Adult Career and Continuing Education Services-Vocational Rehabilitation (ACCES-VR) (Link will open in new window)
• NYS Talking Book and Braille Library (Link will open in new window)
• New York State Disability Services Council (Link will open in new window)

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Regional Resources

Please click on a link below to learn of the resources that are available in your center's regional area.

Central NY

• ACCES-VR Southern Tier Office (Link will open in new window)
• ACCES-VR Syracuse District Office (Link will open in new window)
• ACCES-VR Utica Office (Link will open in new window)
• BC Transit: ADA Accessibility (Link will open in new window)
• City of Syracuse, ADA Policy (Link will open in new window)
• LAUNCH (formerly Learning Disabilities Association of Central New York) (Link will open in new window)
• Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit: ADA Paratransit services (Link will open in new window)

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Rochester region

• ACCES-VR Rochester District Office (Link will open in new window)
• City of Rochester (Link will open in new window)
• Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority: Lift Line (Link will open in new window)

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Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies and Metropolitan NY region

• ACCES-VR Bronx District Office (Link will open in new window)
• ACCES-VR Brooklyn District Office (Link will open in new window)
• ACCES-VR Manhattan District Office (Link will open in new window)
• ACCES-VR Queens District Office (Link will open in new window)
• Mayor's Office for Persons with Disabilities (Link will open in new window)
• Metropolitan Transportation Authority: Guide to Accessible Transit (Link will open in new window)

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Hudson Valley

• ACCES-VR Mid-Hudson District Office (Link will open in new window)
• ACCES-VR White Plains District Office (Link will open in new window)
• Westchester County Bee Line: Office for the Disabled, Paratransit (Link will open in new window)
• White Plains Commission on Human Rights (Link will open in new window)

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Long Island

• ACCES-VR Hauppauge District Office (Link will open in new window)
• MTA Long Island Accessibility (Link will open in new window)
• Suffolk County Accessible Transportation (Link will open in new window)

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Buffalo region

• ACCES-VR Buffalo District Office (Link will open in new window)
• Learning Disabilities Association of Western New York (Link will open in new window)

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Northeast NY

• ACCES-VR Albany District Office (Link will open in new window)
• ACCES-VR Malone District Office (Link will open in new window)
• Capital District Transportation Authority STAR services (Link will open in new window)
• Joy S. Emery Educational and Clinical Services Center of The College of Saint Rose (Link will open in new window)
• Northeast Career Planning (Link will open in new window)
• SUNY Albany's Psychological Services Center (Link will open in new window)

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