Lori Neff

Goal for 2025: convince more people to add alt text to internal communications.
I love that more of my coworkers are becoming allies for digital accessibility on external sites and apps. Now let’s see if we can start to be more inclusive with our coworkers.
#accessibility #alttext

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When disability is equated with dependency, disability is stigmatized. Citizens with disabilities are labeled inferior citi- zens. When disability is understood as dependency, disability is posited in direct contrast to American ideals of independence and autonomy. In real life, however, just as in a real democracy, all of us are dependent on others. All of us contribute to and benefit from the care of others--as taxpayers, as recipients of public education, as the children of parents, as those who use public roads or trans- portation, as beneficiaries of publicly funded medical research, as those who do not participate in wage work during varying life stages, and on and on. We are an interdependent people. As his- torian Linda Kerber wrote, critiquing the gendered nature of the American ideal of individualism, "The myth of the lone individ- ual is a trope, a rhetorical device. In real life no one is self-made; few are truly alone."1 Dependency is not bad-indeed, it is at the heart of both the human and the American experience. It is what makes a community and a democracy. matters in our na-

This is such a powerful observation about why ableism is so inherent in U.S. society. From A Disability History of the United States by Kim Nielsen.

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My greatest hits: “Have you included anyone with a disability in your user research?” “Accessibility is actually part of UX.” “I’d be happy to test that for accessibility before you release it.”

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