Because of limited awareness around Deafness and accessibility in the web community, it seems plausible to many of us that good captioning will fix it all. It won’t. Before we can enhance the…

As we approach the end of the semester in our new and unexpected distance delivery mode, the question of assessment is, if it wasn’t already, moving to the forefront of our and our students’ minds.

Despite growing attention to accessibility concerns for students, faculty needs are often not part of those conversations. Faculty with disabilities f

The diverse forms of disability make it virtually impossible to detect adverse impact.

The Library of Congress subject headings have been examined in the past for their classification of subjects relating to race, gender, and sexuality. Overlooked is subject headings that relate to disabilities. In the course of creating records for the archival and object material that form the P.T. Barnum Digital Collection, the project discovered the imperfections of the Library of Congress subject headings, and the need to develop standards and protocols for the material. This resulted in a balance of language that respects the preferences of living communities and their best practices, and the existing language in the Library of Congress, while also engaging with the complex nuances of disability theory. The issues encountered raise questions regarding classification, contemporary language, and the best way forward for archival institutions.

What happened to a Portland student sheds light on how a desire to thwart a shooting can have unintended consequences.

A column from s.e. smith on all the ways disability can be invisible and all the ways able-bodied people willfully make disability invisible.

Olivier Nourry discusses Ableism which considers people with disabilities as unworthy and how inaccessibility is a by-product of ableism-based thinking.

Alabama's oldest public 4-year university located within a four-city area on the Tennessee River known as the Shoals

A story told with Adobe Spark

In this post, Symphony, one of our Listen In Contributing Editors, shares research about library workers with disabilities, who are often overlooked in LIS literature.

Archival Science - This paper critically explores power structures embedded in archival description and re-conceptualizes archives and archival material as assemblages of politicized decisions...

Roughly one in five Americans lives with a disability. So where is our pride movement?

I’ve never hidden the fact that I have MS but today I’m coming out as a cripple—claiming my identity as disabled.

So, Daredevil Season 2 is out (I haven’t watched it yet, I swear I’m getting around to it eventually.) But as a result there’s been a lot of Daredevil cosplay again, and y’a…

We need more education about what OCD is, and what it is not: a punchline.