Category: Human Nature

Dissecting negative attitudes towards disability

Post author By Dan Smith
Post date August 24 2020
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A poster advertising the film "The Terry Fragments: Being blind and the art of the everyday", by Catalin Brylla.

Dr. Catalin Brylla’s research project on “Blindness, Media and Social Stigma” answers my biggest questions about the way that people view disability.

Tags ableism, accessibility, disability, discrimination, everydayness, inspiration porn, minorities, oppression, politics, prejudice, psychology, society, stereotypes, stigma, video

Failure Human Nature

Failure builds character

Often our teachers don’t mention that their wisdom was built on failure.

Accessibility Human Nature

But blind people can’t do that

Post author By Dan Smith
Post date July 26 2007
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As a conscientious web developer, I build web pages that endeavour to be accessible to as wide a range of people as possible. Inevitably, this means that every now and then I have to pull a project manager, client, or designer up on inaccessible content or a poorly thought out design. So, I might say […]