Shining Lamp Resource Collection:

• About Us
• Building Inclusive Communities: Learning from ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's Examples on Valuing Marginalized Members
• White Cane Awareness Day

Removing Barriers for People with Disabilities

• What is ableism, and what is its impact?
• #Ableism
• 12 Ways to Celebrate Disability Pride Month
• 2024 Disability Equality Index Report
• 3 Lessons We Can Still Learn From The Americans With Disabilities Act
• 3 Quick and Easy Ways to Tell if a PDF is Accessible
• 4 Black Disability Creators and Influencers to Know
• 4 ways to design a disability-friendly future
• 5 national parks that put accessibility first
• 5 takeaways from screen reader usability interviews
• 8 Ways Ableism Shows Up In Religious Spaces
• A complete guide for content creators to start making accessible content
• A moment that changed me: I thought deafness was a flaw. Then I met clever, wise, funny Rosie
• Ableism 101: What it is, what it looks like, and what we can do to to fix it
• Accessibility is critical for the world's disability community
• Accessible Forms
• All Walks - Limiting cars in cities can help People with Disabilities, too.
• American Sign Language (
ASL) Interpreters and Captioning Services
• Anti-Ableism Fast Facts - Ways to Combat Ableism:
• As the ADA Celebrates Its 34th Anniversary, Digital Accessibility Must Be Our Next Priority
• Avoid PDF for On-Screen Reading
• Baby babbles in sign language with deaf grandparents
• Baha'i International Community Statement on Human Rights and Disability
• Baha'i Service For The Blind
• Bahá’í Quotes on Disability
• Be an Upholder and Defender of the Victims of Oppression
• Be My Eyes “Inclusive Language” Guide
• Because she made a fuss, Judy Heumann made everyone's life better
• Becoming Anti-Ableist: A Disability Justice- Informed Approach to Supporting the Disability Community
• Believe It or Not
• Blind Courtesy
• Blindness isn't a tragic binary -- it's a rich spectrum
• By exceeding my life expectancy, I’ve become a model for other Black disabled women
• CDC Data shows Growing Number of Americans with Disabilities
• Celebrating Advocacy for People with Disabilities While Ignoring Accessibility and Inclusion: The Stark Hypocrisy and Systemic Ableism of This Egregious Injustice at an Awards Presentation
• Celebrating disability As part of human diversity
• Celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2024: A Call to Digital Inclusion
• Create and verify PDF accessibility
• Create trust by openly discussing disability problems and solutions
• Deaf and Hard of Hearing Task Force for the Baha’i community.
• Dignity, Respect, and Determination: The Momentum of the Blind People's Movement
• Do Churches Care for the Less Privileged and Disabled
• Doctors call out ableism in cancer care - The biggest barrier is attitude
• Don't publish that PDF!
• Down Syndrome: What I Wish You Knew
• Dr. Natalie Shaheen Wins $1.5 Million NSF CAREER Grant
• Eureka! It All Matters!
• Faith in Access: Bridging Conversations between Religion and Disability
• Fighting the War on ‘Image Poverty’
• Fostering Inclusion: Blindness Doesn’t Define Us
• Giving a damn about accessibility - A candid and practical handbook for designers.
• Global Accessibility Awareness Day Continues!
• Hear the Dance: Audio Description Comes of Age
• Helping Out: How Chores at Home May Pave the Way to Future Employment for Blind Youth
• Hong Kong writer Sa’diyya Nesar on the intersection of disability and faith
• How a quadruple amputee overcame countless rejections to make his pilot dreams take off
• How Faith Communities Can Be Inclusive of Believers with Disabilities
• How to talk about disability sensitively and avoid ableist tropes
• How to write an image description
• How to Write Meaningful and Inclusive Descriptive ALT Text for Images
• I am not my blindness: What the blind community wishes you knew
• I was 29 when road signs became blurry – within a decade I was completely blind
• I Worked Quite Well With My Disability. That Never Stopped Customers From Saying Wild Things To Me.
• I'm proud to be autistic - Sheffield nurse shines light on Disability Pride month
• Including People With Disabilities in Data Collection
• Inspiration porn and the objectification of disability: Stella Young at TEDxSydney 2014
• I’m Deafblind—Here’s How Traveling the World Helps Me Embrace My Disabilities and Educate Others
• I’m Disabled And People Have No Problem Telling Me This One Shocking Thing
• July is Disability Pride Month
• Latina mothers in Nebraska join local police to make life safer for children with disabilities
• Learn American Sign Language
• Let's Add Accessibility to the Mix
• My Greatest Achievement "Becoming a parent is the single best thing I’ve ever done".
• Nasa Added Amazing Alt Text Image Descriptions to James Webb Space Telescope Photos
• Navigating the Clash Between Deafness, Gene Therapy, and Social Justice
• New PSA commemorates Disability Pride Month
• Nothing About Us Without Us -- Mantra for a Movement...
• On Becoming a Commercial Realtor: A Blind Person’s Pathway out of Poverty and Penury
• Raise awareness about accessibility
• Religious freedom is no reason to deny people with disabilities the right to equality in the workplace
• Safeguarding the legacy, investing the inheritance - A tribute to the transformative impact of Louis Braille's invention on the lives of Blind People
• Shattering Injustice and Raising Expectations: Dedication to Equality by a Blind Attorney
• She got a nasty note on her car for parking in a disabled spot. Her response is a vital read
• ShiningLamp Accessibility Statement
• Sidewalks in disrepair create Barriers for People with Disabilities
• Small towns are getting in on the push for better Colorado playgrounds for kids with disabilities
• Tanni's lifetime road to disabled equality
• Task force encourages communities to make accessibility a priority
• The Baha'i Faith and People with Disabilities:
• The case for describing race in alternative text attributes
• The Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition (CCDC) Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) 2023 Access Awards
• The enduring legacy of a D.C. mother who fought for Black deaf children
• The internet's accessibility problem -- and how to fix it
• The Pride and Prejudice of Living with Disability
• The University of Washington Accessible Technology - Documents Information
• Tips on being a great host to a Blind Person
• To Light a Candle
• Top 9 Tips for Accessible Communications
• Topic Collection List
• Travel Without Limits: How I rediscovered my love of the outdoors as an autistic wheelchair user
• What is Inclusive Design?
• What is Responsive Design (RD)?
• What NPR readers want you to know about living with a disability
• When Do People with Disabilities Get the Respect and Services They Deserve?
• When You Don’t Look Sick - People with invisible disabilities and chronic illnesses
• Why You Need to Stop Using These Words and Phrases
• Woman using wheelchair ticks "no disability" for new job—shares boss' reaction
• Words Matter - Use Blind or Low Vision as opposed to visually impaired
• Your Local Community Isn’t Ready to Evacuate People with Disabilities

Removing Barriers related to Race

• A Nation of “Haves” and “Have-Nots”?
• A Pastor's Paradox: Embracing Marginalization to Spark Change
• Adults with Disabilities: Ethnicity and Race
• Alliance for Racial Healing
• Intersections Between Racism and Ableism
• Letters from the Universal House of Justice on Removing Barriers to building Vibrant Communities
• Racism is the Most Challenging Issue Confronting America.
• Significant Disproportionality in Special Education: Current Trends and Actions for Impact
• The Universal House of Justice 22 July 2020 - To the Bahá’ís of the United States - on Racism
• To Be BIPOC, Disabled and Fighting for Justice

Removing Barriers related to Age

• Caregiving for Family and Friends — A Public Health Problem
• Challenges at the Intersection of Age and Disability
• Do We Simply Not Care About Old People?
• Generations United
• I’m a Nondriver—and There’s a Good Chance You Are, Too
• Life Is Worse for Older People Now
• Unity in Diversity

Removing Barriers related to Gender

• 'You will make it': An anonymous neighbor stepped in when a single mom felt hopeless
• A look at gender gains and gaps in the U.S.
• FINANCIAL INEQUALITY: Disability, Race and Poverty in America
• Gender Equality - United Nations
• Gender, age, and disability: Addressing the intersection
• Removing Barriers
• The Equality of Men and Women
• Women’s History Milestones: A Timeline

Removing Barriers related to Culture

• Inclusive Design
• Lakota teen who set world record with hair says he is proud to represent tribe
• Making Multicultural Places
• More Than Words
• Understanding Culture and Diversity in Building Communities
• Want to be culturally sensitive? Start with saying my name right Ranjana Srivastava
• What Would Society Look Like If Extreme Wealth Were Impossible?