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Image with a magenta background and hand-drawn in black ink the figure of a woman in a wheelchair with short hair—her mouth is open wide and there is a caption bubble in yellow that reads “To pee or not to pee, that’s NOT the question!”
Issue 29 by Alice Wong on November 4th, 2015
Very often, specialized companies create assistive technology with little input from actual users with disabilities. These products are usually institutional in look and feel, overpriced, and only reimbursable by insurance.
In-game screenshot; a character looks at the camera, wearing a vest and bowtie, leaning against a graphical case of bottles.
Issue 29 by Veve Jaffa on November 4th, 2015
Organizations run by primarily white, cis, straight founders train the majority of their focus on alleviating alienation for white cis women in cis male-centric spaces, but do little to dig deeper into other marginalized identities and access needs.
The author at Warner Bros Studios, standing on a bridge set piece for the Harry Potter movies.
Issue 28 by Daniel Freeman on October 12th, 2015
College campuses can, and should, do a better job of advocating for their students, staff and faculty with disabilities.
The stages of a butterfly from chrysalis to newly hatched.
Issue 23 by Betsy Haibel on June 30th, 2015
New programming language communities are “graded” on how cutting-edge they are: our pattern-matching capabilities associate white men with the cutting edge, especially if they’re talking about monads.
International access symbol on a brick wall.
Issue 21 by Lacey Williams Henschel on May 20th, 2015
Wide accessibility must become a part of everything we do in the tech industry, and our events are a critical part of that mission.
A mobile phone with various social media icons, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest and others.
Issue 19 by Alice Wong on April 7th, 2015
The power and promise of social media is still out of reach for some people with disabilities who do not have the same ease-of-use and benefits as non-disabled users.
Escalators in a bright, empty room.
Issue 18 by El Gibbs on March 17th, 2015
Decades have passed and still accessibility remains on the fringes of technical change.
Panoramic of Crater Lake, a scenic view of water, mountains, trees and hazy sun.
Issue 17 by David Peter on February 24th, 2015
I have never met another person who is deaf at a hearing tech conference. I regularly see uncaptioned video tutorials for open source libraries and transcript-less tech podcasts. I stopped going to tech meetups. Without any representation in tech, I grew up a token.
Photo of Chad Taylor.
Events by The Editor & Chad Taylor on October 28th, 2014
"Not many hearing people realize Deaf people have to fight for access on a daily basis."
A prominent outdoor sign displaying accessibility information for a facility.
Events by Liz Henry on October 27th, 2014
Instead of complaining that disabled people just don't come to your conference, do something that would make them want to come to it!