Design/Disability Justice

Overview

Argue for how a given technology, meets or fails to meet design/disability justice principles, including non-ableist language, emphasizing agency and control, and avoiding disability dongles

ABET Requirement

This competency meets the ABET requirement that you demonstrate:

An ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors

Best Practices

You should be able to summarize and critique accessibility projects, including your own, on the following concerns:

• Does this project build on existing disability community knowledge and practices? For example is it being used to give control and improve agency to the intended users? Does it avoid ableist assumptions about what disabled people need or want or are capable of?
• How might this project perpetuate harm against those with marginalized identities? For example does this project have, or avoid, ableist technology and language, including “disability dongles”?
• Is it including diverse participants with intentionality (multiple disabled people, multiply disabled people, people from diverse disability communities)? Similarly, is it engaging with all aspects of participants’ identities, rather than oversimplifying by erasing part of who they are?

Rubric for this Competency

Excellent

Uses two or more principals correctly (including defining them and correctly explaining why they apply) and addresses at least two of the best practices in a nuanced way

Competent

Uses at least two principals correctly and addresses at least one best practice

Not Competent

Doesn't accurately connect the subject to disability justice concepts

Typical Handin for this Competency

• Analyze using two disability principles. For each, explain how the subject fails or succeeds to meet them.
• Address best practices