Accessibility

• North and south entrances are accessible.
• An elevator is at the center of the building near the Kagan Grand Staircase.
• Accessible men’s and women’s restrooms:
  • Level 1 Whispers Café
  • Levels 1, 2, 3, A, and B northwest of the Kagan Grand Staircase
• Accessible, larger, all-gender, single-stall restrooms:
  • Level 2 (near the Serenity Room)
  • Level A (near the Exploration Center)

• Located in Simon Hall
• Simon Hall’s accessible entrances:
  • Main (near parking lot 35)
  • Southeast (near Danforth University Center)
• An elevator is near Simon Hall’s southeast entrance.
• The closest accessible men’s and women’s restrooms:
  • Simon Hall, Second floor, north of the library (with power-operated doors)
  • Simon Hall, Second floor, south of the library

• Located in January Hall
• January Hall’s north and south entrances are accessible
• An elevator is at the center of January Hall
• Some parts of the collection are only accessible via stairs
• The closest accessible men’s and women’s restrooms:
  • January Hall, Lower level, west of the elevator, down a sloped hallway
• The closest accessible, all-gender, single-stall restrooms:
  • January Hall, Lower level, east of the elevator

• The main entrance is accessible.
• There is no elevator. These areas are only accessible via stairs.
  • The Basement:
    • Group Study Room 9
    • Music Department Seminar Room Book stacks
  • The Mezzanine:
    • Group Study Room 201
• The closest accessible, all-gender, single-stall restroom:
  • Blewett Hall, First floor, at the back of the building, unlabeled

• Located in Kemper Art Museum.
• Kemper Art Museum’s northwest and southwest entrances are accessible.
• Elevators are in the center and southwest corners of Kemper Art Museum.
• The closest accessible men’s and women’s restrooms:
  • Kemper Art Museum, Ground floor, outside the library

The WashU Libraries take part in HathiTrust Digital Library’s Accessible Text Request Service. This service gives WashU users with print disabilities special access to copyrighted materials for use with adaptive technologies. Users must have registered with WashU Disability Resources or Human Resources.

Please email the Libraries accessibility team at LibrariesAccessibility@wustl.edu to request full digital copies of “Limited (search-only)” works in HathiTrust. Find these titles by searching “All Items” in the “Item Viewability” section. In your email, include links to books you want to access. The Libraries accessibility team will confirm your eligibility and respond to your request.

The Libraries can help you get scanned chapters or materials as PDFs. Learn how to submit a scanning request. 

Many library databases offer HTML full-text listening. EBSCO and Gale databases include “Listen” speech-to-text functionality. You may also download MP3 audio files for personal use.

You can download audiobooks and e-books from the OverDrive Audiobook Collection.  Learn how to create an OverDrive account with your WashU email. Click on “Additional Info.”

To use OverDrive on your mobile device, download the Libby app.

Streaming videos in library databases often include closed captions and transcripts. They sometimes include audio descriptions. See Academic Video Online (AVON) and Streaming Film Library.

Technology on general computers:

• Narrator
• Magnifier
• On-screen keyboard
• Speech recognition
• High contrast themes
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Mouse adjustments

Rooms A50 and A51:

• To access, check out a key at the Help Desk
• Job Access With Speech (JAWS) 2022
• Headphones
• Large print, high contrast Braille keyboard
• Mouse

Research Studio:

• ABBYY FineReader Optical Character Recognition (OCR) scanning software

Open main study area, one (1) computer

• Job Access With Speech (JAWS) 2023
• Headphones are available for checkout
• Standard keyboard
• Mouse