The goal of this homework is to apply a disability justice framework to analyzing a technology or service currently in use in the world. You will need to:
# Overview
The goal of this homework is to apply a disability justice framework to analyzing a technology or service currently in use in the world.
## Learning Goals / Competencies
This homework will contribute to
- Your competency grade on understanding how to apply a disability justice framing
- Your competency grade on following [best practices for plain language writing](https://www.plainlanguage.gov/guidelines/) in your post
- Your participation grade, as a percentage of completeness (are all the required parts present)
## Length & Difficulty
Students in the past have reported that this assignment takes an median of 4 hours (mode=3). However, in our experience many students have to make multiple attempts to fully meet the competency for disability justice. It is recommended to carefully read about the 10 principals and ask questions if you are having trouble understanding which one might apply.
Some things students have told us about this assignment:
- "Writing well in Plain language is harder than I thought."
- it is sometimes hard to identify a remedy. Again, reach out if you need help here.
# Details
To complete this assignment, you will need to do the following
0. Read about [plain language writing for accessibility](https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewpulrang/2020/10/22/plain-language-writing---an-essential-part-of-accessibility/?sh=4afd8af77935) and [plain language best practices](https://www.plainlanguage.gov/guidelines/)
1. Read an article on the topic you have selected. You may use one of the articles we have provided (see below) or find one of your own (requires instructor approval)
2. Select at least 3 of the [10 principles of disability justice](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bed3674f8370ad8c02efd9a/t/5f1f0783916d8a179c46126d/1595869064521/10_Principles_of_DJ-2ndEd.pdf), and reflect on the ways in which this technology or service addresses, or fails to address, those principals.
Please note that the principals of disability justice are political in nature -- that is an important reason we let you select among them. Wthether you agree with them or not, we are asking you to demonstrate your understanding what the disability community has put forth in defining these principals.
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-[masking and disability justice](https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/4/21/mask-mandate-disability-justice/) "The most frustrating part that I've had conversations about with people who don’t want the mask mandate has just been me being like, 'I have this condition. I would basically die if I got COVID,'" Shang says. “And then people are like, ‘Yeah, but that’s your issue, not ours.'"
-[public health and disability justice](https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2022/03/07/disabled-people-are-tired-public-health-and-ableism/) "It is clear that the only way out of a global pandemic is collectivity, not individualism, but how are disabled people expected to hand our lives over to a collective that doesn’t seem to care if people like us live or die?"
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-[accessibe](https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7az74/people-with-disabilities-say-this-ai-tool-is-making-the-web-worse-for-them) "They’re actively marketing ‘Hey, don’t worry about it, don’t worry about learning about accessibility—use our automated tool. And not only does the automated tool not fix things, but it gives companies a reason not to educate their coders,” Chancey Fleet, president of the National Federation of the Blind’s assistive technology trainers division, told Motherboard. (Optional [related article](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lies-damned-overlays-widgets-timothy-springer/))
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- at least one paragraph per disability justice issue you selected
- a paragraph summarizing your thoughts on what remedy, if any, could improve the justice of this technology or service
# Competencies
This homework will contribute to
- Your competency grade on understanding how to apply a disability justice framing
- Your competency grade on following [best practices for plain language writing](https://www.plainlanguage.gov/guidelines/) in your post
- Your participation grade, as a percentage of completeness (are all the required parts present)
