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For nearly three decades, digital accessibility has been understood primarily as a remediation problem. Organizations create information, accessibility professionals identify barriers, and documents, websites, applications, or multimedia are subsequently modified until they satisfy applicable legal and technical standards. This model…
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Read NowThe sign language AI market is beginning to resemble a familiar pattern seen across emerging technology sectors: excitement first, governance later, accountability somewhere far behind both. Over the past year, “AI ASL avatars” have exploded into conference stages, LinkedIn thought…
Read NowHospitals are not testing grounds for immature accessibility technology. A mistranslated grocery order is inconvenient. A mistranslated explanation of surgical complications, medication dosage, psychiatric evaluation, or emergency consent can alter the course of someone’s life. That distinction matters because much…
Read NowFor decades, accessibility advocacy focused on obtaining access to systems from which disabled people had been excluded. The struggle was understandable. Participation required accommodation. Inclusion required recognition. Access required institutional change. Yet the arrival of increasingly sophisticated accessibility technologies introduces…
Read NowThe Most Common Mistake in Accessibility Innovation Accessibility movements have spent generations fighting for representation. The demand has been both simple and profound: nothing about us without us. Communities historically excluded from decision-making sought not merely a seat at the…
Read NowAccessibility, Expertise, and the Problem of Legitimacy Every era produces technologies that seem to arrive ahead of the institutions needed to govern them. Railroads transformed transportation before modern safety regulation emerged. Radio reshaped communication before societies established norms for licensing…
Read NowFor decades, Deaf communities have fought for representation in spaces where decisions about accessibility were often made without them. The demand was both reasonable and necessary. Policies affecting Deaf people should include Deaf voices. Technologies intended to serve Deaf people…
Read NowMost digital marketplaces today still operate on an architectural assumption that dates back to the early era of the commercial internet: a person opens a web browser, arrives at a homepage, and begins navigating through categories until they locate the…
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