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2 results found tagged disability identity.
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Neurodivergence and Digital Accessibility: What Researchers Are Finding
Recent accessibility scholarship is investigating ADHD, autism, and neurodiversity with a breadth and critical depth that challenges how the field thinks about disability itself. This article examines what researchers have found across 88 papers — from biased measurement instruments and the failures of AI career chatbots to how ADHD students build collaborative access through body doubling and how autistic livestreamers find social connection through asymmetric platform dynamics.
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First Person: How Autoethnography Is Changing What Accessibility Research Can Say
Disabled researchers are turning their own experiences into scholarship — and the findings challenge assumptions that third-person studies cannot reach. From the distinction between technical sufficiency and experiential adequacy to the social dimension of access that controlled evaluations flatten, autoethnographic research is producing concepts, failure stories, and questions that other methods cannot generate.