Disability did not become fashionable. Disabled people became harder to ignore.
Smart glasses controversy sidelines the benefits for disabled people | Letter
Letters: Guardian readers reflect on the ableism rife in the debate about Ray-Ban Meta eyewear, despite the life-changing difference they can make
Belonging Is a Right, Not a Reward
CW: Ableism Disabled people have been made to prove their worth for too long. Society sees value in work, earnings, or productivity, and anyone who doesn’t meet these standards is expected to…
Four Months Later, My Head Is Quiet - Ewan’s Blog
I didn’t realise how much of my baseline was illness until parts of it disappeared.
Accessible Color Choices Are About So Much More Than Just Contrast - Sheri Byrne-Haber's Blog
Learn more about disability and accessibility in the business and educational settings from the expert in the field - Sheri Byrne Haber.
The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles
A fabulously gay blind author.
Technoableism
Technoableism is a belief in the power of technology that considers the elimination of disability a good thing, something we should strive for. It’s a classic form of ableism—bias against disabled people, bias in favor of nondisabled ways of life. Technoableism is the use of technologies to reassert those biases, often under the guise of empowerment.
People Who Can't Visualize Anything Are Challenging a 300-Year-Old Theory of Thought
Mental imagery might not be as central to complex human thought as we believed, philosophers say.
Every Online Contretemps Is Definitionally Stupid
I meant to write something else and this is what came out. It is very weird to be writing about this again.
Ewan's Corner
A personal space where I share my thoughts on coding, technology, and life.
How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
How the hypercuriosity of ADHD may have helped humans thrive | Aeon Essays
ADHD isn’t merely a dysfunction. It’s best understood as an impulsive motivational drive for novel information
The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner., Sightless Scribbles
A fabulously gay blind author.
The Dark Mode Toggle Discourse
How the dark mode toggle discourse unfolded One designer's argument against the classic light/dark/system three-way switch turned into weeks of blog rebuttals, parody posts, and "do you even need a toggle at all?" takes. The timeline Aug 1…
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Assumed Audiences
Naming your invisible audiences to free yourself from unspoken obligations
