Tag: disability
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‘Normal’ Was Actually Not Great for a Lot of People
Written by Alice Wong on Esquire.
“In this critical time, when scarcity is a reality, you see the hierarchy. Certain groups are valued over others. This is the world that so many disabled and chronically ill people already live in. Our lives are still seen as expendable. Now the magnitude is much greater.”
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“My hope for coming out of this pandemic is that we don’t return to the status quo. Many don’t realize that “normal” was actually not great for a lot of people. Just because all of the nondisabled people go back to work—or to Burning Man, or to Coachella—that doesn’t mean we should stop thinking about accessibility.”
Read ‘‘Normal’ Was Actually Not Great for a Lot of People’ on the Esquire site.
Tagged with: accessibility, disability, coronavirus.
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How Algorithmic Bias Hurts People With Disabilities
Written by Alexanda Reeve Givens on Slate.
“In hiring, for example, new algorithm-driven tools will identify characteristics shared by a company’s “successful” existing employees, then look for those traits when they evaluate new hires. But as the model treats underrepresented traits as undesired traits to receive less weighting, people with disabilities—like other marginalized groups—risk being excluded as a matter of course.
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While some have called to fix this data problem by collecting more detailed information about job candidates’ disabilities, further collection raises its own distinct and very real concerns about privacy and discrimination.
These problems exist for others, too: people who have marginalized sexual orientations or nonbinary gender identities, those who fall outside U.S. definitions of race and ethnicity, and for people who are members of multiple, intersecting marginalized communities.”
Read ‘How Algorithmic Bias Hurts People With Disabilities’ on the Slate site.
Tagged with: disability, discrimination, algorithms.