disability
The term “people with disabilities” encompasses people with all types of mental and physical disabilities.
"Disabilities come in many forms, several of which you can't see just by looking at someone."
"Dating is a tricky biz whether you're in a wheelchair or not."
About one in five.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The U.S. still has work to do for disability rights, 25 years after the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed.
Because tech should be for everyone.
Disability metaphors abound in our culture, and they exist almost entirely as pejoratives. You see something wrong? Compare it to a disabled body or mind. These words seem so "natural" to people that they go uncorrected a great deal of the time.
To me, it feels like the opposite of acceptance to have my entire identity as a person with a physical disability reduced to an isolated simulation experience. We must move away from equating empathy with acceptance
An American multi-national corporation, which accepts millions of dollars in government funds, pays its top executives more than half a million dollars per year in total compensation, while simultaneously paying some of its employees less than the federal minimum wage.