This is the article version of a talk I gave at work to our disability business resource group. Hi, I’m Rachele DiTullio, a senior accessibility engineer. My day-to-day work is making sure digital information and digital systems work for people with disabilities. I’m talking to you today as a disabled co-worker. I figured out as … Continue reading “Disability Visibility”
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What do you mean by disabled?
For much of the 20th century and into the 21st, society largely dictated what “disabled” meant. We were told we were disabled; that we were broken; that we didn’t matter because we weren’t whole. “Disabled” in this context is clearly used as an adjective to describe that state of a person: You’re disabled. Indeed, if … Continue reading “What do you mean by disabled?”