Re: Request for review and consensus

+1 to what Armony has just said. It is the explanation that will help as we all have different ways of describing disabilities.

Best wishes
E.A.
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On 10 Jul 2020, at 10:02, Armony ALTINIER (Koena) <armony@koena.net> wrote:



Hello,

From my "French" perspective, the decisions don't shock me as it is English, I don't really feel concerned. It would probably be a lot more controversial if it was in French.

Should be say "person with disability" or "disabled person"? "Person with autism" or "autistic person"? A person is disabled by her/his environment anyway, but the fact that she/he is blind, deaf, autistic, dyslexic, chronically ill… is another question. I am not sure we could have a universal approach. Your decision to decide an approach, explain it and try to be consistent is a good thing anyway.

My 2 cents,
Armony

Le 09/07/2020 à 22:57, John Foliot a écrit :
+1

JF

(Sent from my mobile, apologies for any spelling mistakes)

On Thu, Jul 9, 2020, 9:27 AM Rachael Bradley Montgomery <rachael@accessiblecommunity.org<mailto:rachael@accessiblecommunity.org>> wrote:
Hello,

While COGA doesn't typically ask for an email consensus, we made several decisions at the meeting today about how we will refer to disabilities in the glossary and Content Usable as a whole.  Almost all attendees were from North America so we felt a wider review of these decisions is needed. Please review the proposals below and respond with a +1 if you agree  or -1 if you object. If you object, please include which portion you object to and a reason so we can start next week's discussion with this.

The minutes regarding this decision are at: https://www.w3.org/2020/07/09-coga-minutes.html<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2020%2F07%2F09-coga-minutes.html&data=01%7C01%7Cead%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7Ca3d1f76a652f42b7acbd08d824afed51%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&sdata=Hd0%2F1todMcBAi4kJoYlTjXVq4qLf7u4L8jErbQA8QgY%3D&reserved=0>

Thank you,

Rachael

Proposed Decisions

  1.  We will use a consistent approach to language describing disabilities with alternatives in () beside term in definition.
  2.  We will add disclaimer language to the beginning of glossary explaining our approach to language choice
  3.  We will use person-first language when describing disabilities (person with autism) as this remains consistent with the W3 use of American spelling and grammar


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