The Library Equal Access Program (LEAP) helps make The Seattle Public Library a great resource for people with disabilities and/or special needs.

The program offers special adaptive equipment, materials in accessible formats and Library services for patrons with special needs who are:

• Blind and/or Visually impaired
• Deaf and/or Hearing impaired
• Special Needs
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For help or more information, please e-mail leap@spl.org or call 206-386-4690 (v/tty) or use Sprint Relay Online.

Mobile Services can bring The Seattle Public Library to you! If you are a resident of Seattle and are unable to regularly visit a branch due to age, disability or an illness that keeps you at home for at least six months, Mobile Services can arrange for the delivery of Library items. For more information, call Mobile Services at 206-684-4713 or e-mail mobile.services@spl.org.

Effective July 1, 2008, the Washington State Library took over the administration and operation of the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library. Previously, the state library contracted with The Seattle Public Library to operate WTBBL, which offers services to people throughout the state who are blind, deaf/blind, visually impaired, physically disabled, and learning disabled.

Link to the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library Web Site