Re: [Style Guide] Disability Language Style Guide

Thanks, Eric.

I skimmed through it. It has some helpful information. At the same time, I think it is not specific enough for us. For example, many places it says things like "Ask the person with a disability or disability organizational spokesperson their preferred terminology."

(It also has a fair bit of information that isn't relevant to our writing, and so would be unnecessary stuff to wade through. And broken targets, which is just annoying, not a deal-breaker.)

I do think we want to add some information to our Style Guide about disability terminology.

We may point to this and others for more background. fyi, here's another one that I've seen: <http://www.sigaccess.org/welcome-to-sigaccess/resources/accessible-writing-guide/>. And if you search for "writing about people with disabilities" you get many more.

Best,
~Shawn


On 8/6/2018 2:37 AM, Eric Eggert wrote:
> I was unsure if I could just edit the Style Guide <https://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/wiki/Style>, so here’s my comment via email:
> 
> I found this Disability Language Style Guide <http://ncdj.org/style-guide/> from the National Center on Disability and Journalism at Arizona State University. It could be useful to add to our style guide as a reference as it nicely outlines how to write appropriately about different disabilities.
> 
> http://ncdj.org/style-guide/
> 
> Eric
> 
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> Eric Eggert
> Web Accessibility Specialist
> Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
>

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