Design for Accessibility: A Cultural Administrator's Handbook

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Literary Activities
Literary activities include creating, publishing, promoting,
distributing and presenting literature. In addition, activities
may involve graphic arts productions, printing, readings,
workshops, exhibits and book fairs, as well as writing,
translation and editing. These activities may take place in
a variety of locations, ranging from printing shops to
classrooms to shopping malls.
Considering accessibility becomes necessary when the work
of literary art becomes public, is produced in a place of public
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accommodation, or is part of an educational program or
conference. A poetry reading in a cafe, a book fair in a church
social hall, a workshop at a community college, a presentation by an author
at a bookstore or an exhibition in a local library must be accessible because
these are all places of public accommodation.