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Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in all Things Tech

taught by: Lainey Feingold
co-presented by: Derek Shields

Session Summary

Join an interactive workshop to explore the recently introduced Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework. Discover the values, actions and questions designed to advance disability inclusion in tech and avoid the risks and harms of exclusion and practice applying them to your work.

Description

The session will begin with an introduction to the Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework, part of an action-oriented book with a planned publication date of one week before AccessU! (The book is titled Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech.) There will be plenty of time for questions during this segment.

The bulk of the session will offer participants the opportunity to apply the framework to issues in their work and communities through small group discussions, report backs to the full group, structured exercises, and more.

The session concludes with practical strategies for using the framework as an advocacy and risk-mitigation tool. Focus will be on supporting more inclusive decision-making, strengthening organizational accountability, and advancing digital accessibility as both an ethical and strategic imperative. Participants will leave with discussion tools, reflection prompts, and methods to help incorporate an ethics lens into their work, and to share the Framework with colleagues. (We hope everyone will participate but this session is also suitable for people who prefer to listen and do not want to engage in the interactive exercises.)

Practical Skills

  • Understand and be able to describe the the core principles and structure of the Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework.
  • Analyze real-world accessibility challenges using an ethical decision-making lens and apply the Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework to participants’ specific role, sector, or technology context.
  • Develop at least one actionable strategy for using the Framework to influence organizational decision-making and reduce risks associated with exclusion.