Discrimination in the Accessibility Community? - Issue 2-2025
Disabled people can also experience exclusion in the accessibility community. A recent example: I wrote to David A. Kennedy, the provider of the A11Y weekly newsletter. I asked him to include a reference to my newsletter. We are not competitors because he has a different focus. He ignored my email without comment. Would he have done the same to a non-disabled person? Or to a celebrity from the accessibility scene? I don't think so. Kennedy is one of the many people for whom accessibility is more important than disabled people. And of course non-disabled people can talk about accessibility much better than we can. Of course he doesn't have to fulfill my request. But ghosting is antisocial and discriminatory. In general, it is striking about Kennedy's newsletter that he rarely refers to contributions from disabled people.
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