October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Throughout this month, we're working to educate our team on disability employment issues and celebrate the many and varied contributions of our own workers with disabilities.
Videos to Watch:
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Short clip series by MS: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtSVUgxIo6KqBBGqNdPQG64f-hTs1YxFM and https://youtu.be/1S-RH6EpmH0
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Web Accessibility: https://www.w3.org/WAI/perspective-videos/
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Designing Accessible Technology | Talks at Google
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Anil Lewis: Disability Rights in Black 2020 | 3 minute video from National Disability Rights Network
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Inclusive cities: it’s not just looking at ramps | 5 minute video from Dr Pineda of World Enabled
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A brief history of Section 504 | 5 minute video by deaf activist Chella Man
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Understanding and Acknowledging Disabilities from a Native Perspective | 18 minute video from Native American Disability Law Center
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This Inclusive Design Makes Life Easier For ALS Diagnosed Christina Mallon | 2 minute video by REALWOMEN/REALSTORIES
Films and TV Series to Watch:
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TCM Movie Marathon
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Speechless (series, 2016-2019)
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ReelAbilities Film Festival – Archive of Movies
Podcasts to Subscribe To:
Articles to Read:
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People with Disabilities Drive Innovation (Originally published in the Financial Times)
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What racial, disability and LGBTQ justice have in common | Public Broadcasting Corporation
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Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - one of the first U.S. federal civil rights laws offering protection for people with disabilities | Wikipedia
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Projectors don’t lie https://medium.com/salesforce-ux/projectors-dont-lie-b85ef628b04
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Accessible Interface Design: On designing with accessible color contrast ratios https://medium.com/salesforce-ux/accessible-interface-design-d80e95cbb2c1
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4 Major Patterns for Accessible Drag and Drop | Jesse Hausler https://medium.com/salesforce-ux/4-major-patterns-for-accessible-drag-and-drop-1d43f64ebf09
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How to Describe Complex Designs for Users with Disabilities | Jesse Hausler https://medium.com/salesforce-ux/how-to-describe-complex-designs-for-users-with-disabilities-ba05f5224130
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7 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about Accessibility | Jesse Hausler https://medium.com/salesforce-ux/7-things-every-designer-needs-to-know-about-accessibility-64f105f0881b
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Universal Design for Hearing: Considerations for Examining Hearing Demands and Developing Hearing Friendly Workplaces https://www.audiologyonline.com/articles/universal-design-for-hearing-considerations-862
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Designing spaces for the hearing impaired https://nhc.com.au/blog/designing-spaces-for-hearing-impaired
Books to Read:
- Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
- Disability Visibility : First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
- Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
Organizations to Follow on Social Media:
- National Black Disability Coalition | Facebook
- National Coalition of Latinx with Disabilities | Facebook | Twitter
- Asians and Pacific Islanders with Disabilities of California | Facebook
Learning Resources
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Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 - https://www.ada.gov/
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6 ways to create a website that’s accessible (and why it’s important to do so) | The Next Web
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Free webinars on accessibility etiquette and inclusive employment | RespectAbility.org
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Disability 101: Learn about Your Communities | Black, Disabled and Proud
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Diverse Abilities and Barriers | How People with Disabilities use the Web
Accessibility Resources
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The "Be My Eyes" app connects you with a global community of volunteers and company representatives who are ready at a moment’s notice to help you see – to lend their eyesight and support with everyday tasks. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/be-my-eyes/id905177575
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Tools that can help you find an accessible color palette for your designs:
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Color Safe: http://colorsafe.co/
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WebAIM’s Contrast Checker: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/
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disABILITY Information and Resources | A resource site created and maintained by an individual with a disability
Intersectionality
Acknowledging the work of disability advocates who are also members of other minority communities.
Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer is a well-recognized civil rights activist and organizer for voting rights. Her work centered on elevating the rights of Black voters and women, particularly across the state of Mississippi. Hamer had polio as a child and later became physically disabled due to a severe beating in a Mississippi jail.
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Fannie Lou Hammer Biography | National Women's HIstory Museum
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Fannie Lou Hamer Leadership Program | The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD)
April Dunn
April Dunn was born with FAS and cerebral palsy in 1986. She advocated for students with disabilities in Louisiana, working as chair of the Louisiana Developmental Disabilities Council (LDDC) . In 2017, she became a staffer at the Governor's Office of Disabilities Affairs.
On March 28, 2020, April Dunn passed away due to complications from COVID-19, at age 34. In June 2020, Gov Edwards of Louisiana signed a bill in honor of April Dunn.
Kay Ulanday Barrett
Kay Ulanday Barrett is an award-winning Filipinx American queer poet and educator who grew up in Chicago. Disabled by a violent attack, Ulanday Barrett walks with the use of a cane. Their work explores the intersection of race, disability and LGBTQ status and has been published in Vogue Magazine, , The Huffington Post, and PBS News Hou., among others.
In 2013, Ulanday Barrett was honored as 18 Million Rising's Filipino American History Month Hero and Trans 100's 100 Most Amazing Transgender People in the U.S.
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https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/03/29/qa-with-kay-ulanday-barrett/
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https://rootedinrights.org/4-activists-who-make-me-proud-to-be-disabled-and-transgender/
Dr. Victor Pineda
Victor Pineda gradually lost the ability to walk between the ages of 2-5. He migrated from Venezuela to California during grade school. Pineda attended UC Berkeley as an undergraduate.
Upon completion of his undergraduate degree, Dr. Pineda felt it was his duty to follow in the steps of his disability champion predecessors and continued his education to ultimately obtain a B.A. in Political Economy, a B.S. in Business Administration, a master’s degree in City Regional Planning and a doctoral degree in Urban Planning. It was during his time in graduate school that Pineda became the youngest government delegate to participate in the drafting of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Alice Wong
A self-described a self-described “wheelchair-using, hell-raising disabled Asian American woman,” Wong founded the Disability Visibility Project. Wong was a 2013 Presidential appointee to the National Council on Disability.