Selfish Accessibility 2025 @ AccessU

Abstract for my talk Selfish Accessibility: 2025:

More than 10 years ago I presented my talk “Selfish Accessibility,” a tongue-in-cheek discussion of how to quietly approach accessibility efforts by appealing to the bosses, clients, and vendors who otherwise might not care about disabled people, the challenges they face, or the work to include them. With the new political climate in the US, I have updated the talk to build on its core ideas while framing them in the new reality of accessibility programs getting shuttered or disbanded across the country. As a group, we will come up with personas, use cases, and arguments that we can use across to promote our efforts without triggering the kinds of reactions or retribution we fear will become the norm.

Ideally you’re here because you followed the link in the slides. Otherwise this post might not make a lot of sense.

Selfish Business Case

Links and resources I referenced in the first part of the presentation.

Selfish Persona Case

Links and resources from the second part of the presentation.

Selfish You Case

The briefest part of my presentation included a reference to Lainey Feingold’s CSUNATC 2025 talk.

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