If you're a person w/a disability, either mental or physical, & you're willing to share how watching businesses suddenly provide work accommodations w/little to no issue makes you feel I'd love to speak to you for @TeenVogue. DMs are open or you can email me @ [email protected]
If classes don’t translate well to online delivery, maybe that means they weren’t all that accessible in the first place 🤔 maybe we can use the #COVID19 closures to examine how fundamentally ableist so much of higher ed is.
Alternatively: how do we best support instructors to provide inclusive, equitable, high quality online content with little to no lead time? #coronavirus#umich
@lr_murphy Quick guide on digital content accessibility, not related to video content but potentially helpful for increased digital content in the coming months https://t.co/0QQdRl2YOj
Feeling the love for the disability community today and uh...got a little carried away designing my #DisabilityValentines.
Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! 💖
#WhyDisabledPeopleDropOut A thread. As a former faculty member, I have heard several colleagues complain about accommodations as being frivolous. If they are willing to say these things in front of a very visibly disabled colleague, what do they say behind closed doors? 1/
The Adapt team is taking a break from social media as part of our upcoming deep-dive into #health research. However, we will be posting thoughts/updates/findings on our new @Medium page, if you are interested in keeping tabs, you can find the link here: https://t.co/wTx25gM7Jw
@emily_ladau Perhaps we would avoid this problem if disabled folks were supported to work and do research in science and biotech in the first place! #AcademicAbleism
9 million views on a stair-climbing wheelchair video won't help me enter a store with stairs. And much of the tech in viral videos isn't on the market or it's prohibitively expensive. I'm all about problem-solving but social media contributes to over-complication of basic access.
@emily_ladau So much harm when designers and engineers believe that designing for disability means creating the bionic human or something. In reality it’s normal people trying to do normal everyday things
Viral videos on innovations that will "change" disabled people's live can be cool to watch, but they also encourage false hope and unrealistic views of how accessible the world actually is. We need to balance dreaming up innovations with providing practical access here and now.