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@karenraycosta I've been mulling this over for awhile. Last year at #ASSETS2019 Karen Nakamura said (paraphrasing here) some Universally Designed products don't work for disabled people. So what does it mean that they can't use it? Are they outside of the realm of humanity?
@karenraycosta So if we employ UDL in our teaching but then we're still left with disabled students who can't use our materials what message does that send? How are students internalizing it when faculty say they've employed UDL or a11y but yet they still can't access something?
@karenraycosta Oh oh and I recall at the same conference @StarFeuri mentioning that UDL initiatives on campuses could be (have already been?) used to deny further accommodations for disabled students on the basis that adaptations on top of UDL are unreasonable.
@clb5590 is here to tell us that there is already an active and robust Blind Maker community that we can collaborate with and learn from.
#ASSETS2019 #CripTheACM
#ASSETS2019 #CripTheACM
Despite the fact that many maker technologies are inaccessible to develop for, Blind hobbyists and makers have been forging their own #CripTechnoscience to make and build their own artifacts.
#ASSETS2019 #CripTheACM
#ASSETS2019 #CripTheACM
@clb5590 reminds us that publishing work done with community activists can be extractive and exploitative and we need to be conscious not to profit off of the deprivation and enginuity of others.
#ASSETS2019 #CripTheACM
#ASSETS2019 #CripTheACM
Wrestling with part of Karen Nakamura's keynote at #ASSETS2019: move from diversity and inclusion to ownership and belonging. Us deaf folks have been preaching this from the rooftops. Great to see this issue recognized. But how good are we at putting it in practice at ASSETS? 1/6
The target communities need to own the accessibility work and data, through and through. That also means putting people from the communities out font there on the stage and have them present on the work that they've sweated for. We're not seeing nearly enough of this here. 2/6
Yesterday 4 out of 5 deaf/hard of hearing-related presentations had a presenter who is a member of the deaf community. Only one out of six blind/low vision-related presenters was from the community. And none from learning/cognition/emotion presenters, not that I could see. 3/6
I am always struck by the correlation of techno-desire with populations of disabled people who are less immersed in the culture and community of disability.
We find DHH support for sound awareness systems decreases the further into deaf culture you go.
#ASSETS2019 #FATE4PWD
We find DHH support for sound awareness systems decreases the further into deaf culture you go.
#ASSETS2019 #FATE4PWD
Sometimes this desire is a product of systemic discrimination for having a non normative body. Is the problem then not still the system of oppression rather than the body?
I want us to start deploying technologies outward to systems rather than inward onto bodies. #ASSETS2019
I want us to start deploying technologies outward to systems rather than inward onto bodies. #ASSETS2019
The kinds of techno-desire that comes from disabled people who are not seeking a restoration to a normative body are so much more imaginative and transformative than what we tend to design from this medical "correctional" lens. #ASSETS2019 #FATE4PWD #CripTheACM #CripTechnoscience
This is a long rant, but if we ever want to get accessibility right, we must address this type of barrier in content creation. I have long maintained that it must be easy to create accessible content, and hard to create inaccessible content. (1/11)
This means authoring tools must have robust accessibility support built in from the ground up. Case in point: @Microsoft has prided itself on making great strides in accessible document creation by improving accessibility workflows, accessibility checking & PDF conversion. (2/11)
I have praised Microsoft for this in the past. Unfortunately, as I learned the hard way recently with the #ASSETS2019 conference, there is something much more fundamentally broken about the process of creating accessible PDFs with Microsoft Word. (3/11)
