Perri Meldon interviews three disabled employees at the National Park Service and narrates how, despite enhanced accessibility measures for visitors and staff, barriers for disabled people persist, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Continue Reading Oral Histories & Disability Rights at the National Park Service
Category: ADA Turns 30
There are No Infirmities: Disability in Post-ADA Media
In identifying disability as a category of legally protected civil rights, the ADA assert the rights of disabled people as consumers and workers. Disability’s presence within commercial media—especially tech ads—Bess Williamson argues, inadvertently erased disability as an identity category almost as soon as it appeared. Continue Reading There are No Infirmities: Disability in Post-ADA Media