This is the third part of a series on cognitively accessible survey design. The first part of this series discussed the process of optimizing and considered how understanding and designing for survey respondents’ motivations can increase your chances of receiving optimized responses. The second part looked at some common access…

This is part two of a series on cognitively accessible survey design. The first part of this series discussed the process of optimizing and considered how understanding and designing for survey respondents’ motivations can increase your chances of receiving optimized responses. This post will look at some common cognitive access…

This is part one of a series on cognitively accessible survey design. A Survey Is a User Experience A questionnaire is a tool for researchers to gather data in order to answer research questions, but it is also both an interface and an experience for respondents. Best practices for questionnaire design resemble best practices for user…

How do we measure disability? Self-reporting is an unreliable metric of disability in a population. There are a variety of reasons why disabled people may not identify as such, and they are often linked to experiences of multiple marginalization. For example, a person may not feel entitled to claim disability identity because they have not…

It’s often a lot easier to explain what not to do when it comes to disability engagement in research and design, than to tell people what they should be doing. Even though an estimated one in five adults in the United States are disabled, and the design field has made…

A little over three years ago, we published The With List, a self-reflection exercise for designers beginning to engage with disability. Over the past three years, a lot has obviously changed in the world, and a lot has changed in the work we do at The Disabled List as well. …

I have so many goddamn pieces of almost-published writing gathering digital dust in my Google Drive because I had a flare during the revision process and never met the deadline, or the editor needed a simpler narrative or I was writing for a publication that it turns out has a…

When we think about accessibility, we tend to do so in terms of spaces. The first, and sometimes the only, question we ask is: can people get into this space and move around it? The accommodations we think about at this stage are physical and concrete: things like ramps and…

CW: weight loss mention, weight number, exercise, medical neglect Technically this is about a week late but since I haven’t figured out how to hack my experience of time to work like a normal human’s, it’ll have to do. Also, like basically everything I write, this is fucking long so…be…