Resources on Respect, Diversity and Inclusion in Health: Disability

Accessibility

• Empowering Medicine - Unleashing the Potential of Disabled Physicians in Shaping Healthcare Perspectives [UM Panel; Video]

• Ableism: The Undiaganosed Malady Affecting Medicine [UM Panel: Video]

• Taking Down Ableism [Video; 57 mins]

• Ableism in the Academy - Who's Listening [Video; 1 hour 33 mins]

• Ableism in the medical profession (article, CMAJ)

• Ableism: the undiagnosed malady afflicting medicine (article, CMAJ)

• Ableism 101: What it is, what it looks like, and what we can do to to fix it (article, Access Living)

• Accessibility Manitoba (website)

• Disabled people's experiences of health care (Chapter 5 in "Understanding Disability: A Guide for Health Professionals")

• Doctors with disability reflect on challenges (article, ACP Internist)

• Educator's Accessibility Toolkit (website, Council of Ontario Universities)

• I didn't see me: Medicine needs more role models for those with disabilities (article, Women's Agenda AU)

• Medical Ableism is a Cultural and Institutional Issue, not an Individual Problem (article, Black Youth Project)

• Three Things Clinicians Should Know About Disability (article, AMA Journal of Ethics)

• What is disability? (Chapter 2 in "Understanding Disability: A Guide for Health Professionals")

• 21st century eugenics? (article, the Lancet)

Tools

• Accessibility and Assistive Technology Guide

  From Illinois University Library. 

• Colour Contrast Analyser (CCA)

  It helps determine the legibility of text and the contrast of visual elements, such as graphical controls and visual indicators.

• Photosensitive Epilepsy Analysis Tool (PEAT)

  A resource for developers to identify seizure risks in their web content and software. 

• WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool

  Tools that help authors make web content more accessible to individuals with disabilities. 

Adapted from Reed College Library, licensed under a Creative Commons CC-BY Attribution 4.0