Blogging About Accessibility & Disability - Online or Not

Accessibility is important. I have experience with web accessibility, with physical structures accessibility, and have a disability myself. This gives me a unique perspective to discuss these issues.

Recent Blog Posts

New Zealand Media Continues To Use Inappropriate Disability Language

December 13th, 2011

Journalists need to respect disability language. There have been many instances of the use of the expression "Wheelchair bound" in the New Zealand press. When someone points out this is an expression to be avoided, the journalists or newspapers have been saying they thought the expression appropriate. They continue to use it.

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Taking Advantage Of Web Technologies To Increase Service Provision And Decrease Costs

November 29th, 2011

This article is the entire text of the research paper I prepared for my presentation at the Disability Studies: Every Body In Conference, held in November 2011 in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Download the PDF version of this paper.

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When Admiration Reflects Low Expectations

October 29th, 2011

I use a wheelchair. At least once a week I overhear comments from well-meaning, but ignorant people about me. They express admiration at the fact I am doing mundane things such as grocery shopping or exercising. I'm tired of this misplaced "respect" or "admiration".

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