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- 1. Why disability justice should be at the core of your digital accessibility journey Rosie Putland Co-Founder & Principal Accessibility Consultant
- 2. Overview What is disability justice? How does it relate to digital accessibility?
- 4. The Disability Rights Movement The Disability Rights Movement is an international social movement beginning in the 1960’s to secure equal opportunities and equal rights for people with disabilities. Image source: Women with Disabilities Australia
- 5. Disability Justice Disability justice builds on the disability rights movement, taking a more comprehensive approach to help secure rights for disabled people by recognising the intersectionality of disabled people who belong to additional marginalised groups.
- 6. The Disability Justice Framework We must include the experiences of multiply marginalised people with disabilities such as: • People of colour • Immigrants • LGBTQIA+ people • Homeless people • Incarcerated people • People who have had their ancestral lands stolen
- 7. The 10 Principles Intersectionality Leadership of those most impacted Anti-Capitalist Politics Cross-Movement Solidarity Recognising Wholeness
- 8. The 10 Principles continued Sustainability Commitment to Cross-Disability Solidarity Interdependence Collective Access Collective Liberation
- 9. How does disability justice relate to digital accessibility?
- 10. Inaccessibility looks different Recognising that disability is not homogenous. Digital inaccessibility looks different for: • people with various disabilities and; • people of different races, classes, ages, and genders.
- 11. Your session has expired Click to restart the form from the beginning OK
- 12. What is the difference in impact of an accessibility issue? Persona 1 • Accessing the form from a home computer • Chooses to use Dragon Naturally Speaking • Can complete the form any time in the next month. Persona 2 • Accessing the form from a Public Library computer • Travelled 1 hour by public transport to reach Library • Must use Windows Speech Recognition • Must complete the form today. • The Library closes in 30 minutes.
- 13. Both people are facing inaccessibility. But despite having the same disability and using the same type of assistive technology – they face vastly different impacts of this accessibility barrier.
- 14. Impacts vary Employing disability justice in our work means seeing inaccessibility for more than the ‘functional’ impact. Recognising wholeness– for experiences beyond the type of assistive technology used or tested with.
- 15. Why does this matter? Accessibility work or anti-ableism work without recognition of disability justice, struggles to create lasting change
- 16. Reflections Creating lasting impactful change means seeking diverse voices: • Who is participating in your user research? • Who is shaping standards, resources, and frameworks? • Who are you consulting with or employing? • Who is leading the change?
- 17. Any Questions? Rosie Putland Co-Founder & Principal Accessibility Consultant /in/rosie-putland Rosie@ModalityCo.com https://modalityco.com/
- 18. References • The Arc Minnesota Plain Language Disability Justice Principles – The Arc Minnesota • 10 Principles of Disability Justice – Sins Invalid • Disability Justice – a working draft by Patty Berne – Sins Invalid • Moving from Disability Rights to Disability Justice – World Institute on Disability • History of Australia’s Disability Movement – People with Disability Australia • Our History – Women with Disabilities Australia • Disability Rights Movement – Involved CBR
Editor's Notes
- - I’m going to be bringing things back to a more serious note with this talk
- Many other countries across the globe followed suit with similar legislation throughout the 1990’s. 1981 International Year of Disabled Persons 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (US) 1992 Disability Discrimination Act (Australia) 1995 Disability Discrimination Act (UK) 2008 The adoption and ratification in Australia of the United Nation Convention for the Rights of Person with Disabilities Greyscale photo of some of Women with Disabilities Australia's founding members in front of a sign with text "Women with Disabilities Australia"
- Disability justice is a term that was coined in 2005 by Sins Invalid – a collective of disabled queer women of colour. The disability rights movement fell short of examining how: race gender class sexuality play a role in the oppression of people with disabilities.
- Recognises how diverse systems of oppression interact and reinforce each other
- Out of the disability justice framework – 10 main principles were developed Now I wish I has time to sit down and chat about each of these 10 principles in detail but I think David will ring his chairmans bell at me if I take too much time, so I will just be touching on each of the principles for today. 1. Intersectionality – recognizing how ideologies such as racism, sexism, ableism, xenophobia, and homophica often operate together and empower one another 2. Leadership of those most impacted – centering the leadership of the people most impact by ableism 3. Anti-capitalist politics – our worth as a person does not depend on how much we can produce 4. Cross movement solidarity – combines with other movements seeking liberation – for example racial justice or environmental justice 5. Recognising wholeness – disabled people are whole people, they are not less than because of their disability
- 6. Sustainability – disabled activists and advocates need to be in tune with their bodies to pace themselves long-term and continue steadily working towards justice over time without burning out (I think a really relevant one being discussed in the accessibility community at the moment) 7. Commitment to cross disability solidarity – focusing on all disabled people , including those who are often left out 8. Interdependence – allows us to work side-by-side, creating a stronger community as we work towards accessibility and liberation 9. Collective access – all access needs are welcomed, respected, and acknowledged 10. Collective liberation – envisioning a world that can be created when disabled people of various background and lived experience come together to enact a movement of change, I would recommend checking out the Arc Minnesota for some great Plain Language versions of the principles
- Inaccessibility (and ableism) Homogenous – what this means is that my experience of disability is going to be different to all my disabled peers in this room. My experience of inaccessibility is unique because of my combinations of disability – the fact that I have multiple disabilities that impact me in different ways, but also that I am white, I’m a woman, that I’m in my 20’s and that I’m a business owner. Disability justice prioritises the connection between ableism and inaccessibility and other systems of oppression.
- Let’s take an example – The Classic Accessibility issue of time limits of forms, a pop up has appeared “your session has expired – click to restart the form from the beginning”
- But Rosie if I only focus on the functional impact – things are still getting resolved so it’s easier to just grapple with that. [read slide] to secure the rights of people with disabilities and those who are multiply marginalized because it continues to exclude the experience of people facing other types of oppression beyond ableism and inaccessibility, meaning that it will still remain inaccessible to groups of people.