- From: Penny Harrison - TKI <penny@tki.org.nz>
- Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 10:12:34 +1300
- To: "WAI-ig" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
The prevailing theory is >to use "people first" language, like "a person who is blind" or "users >with hearing impairments" because disability should not be THE defining >characteristic. Just to add fuel to the fire...a group here in New Zealand representing people with disabilities have chosen to use the label disabled persons, as they reckon that society and *mainstream attitudes* are the disabling factors of their lives, restrictions are created by so called able bodied, and this creates the problems in their lives (eg stairs, inaccessible websites...). They are disabled by society not by the way they are. Penny Harrison Special Education - Online Editor penny@tki.org.nz http://www.tki.org.nz Te Kete Ipurangi - The Online Learning Centre PO Box 19098 Wellington New Zealand tel: 0064 9 445 7775 fax: 0064 4 445 2775 cell: 021 407 057
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