Making Astronomy Accessible
This page contains information and resources on how to make astronomy accessible to people with disabilities. Please also refer to the wiki page on the accessibility of astronomical institutions.
Disability justice and ableism
- Accessible Astronomy - a blog post by Jesse Shanahan
- Ableism/Language - a list of ableist words/phrases and suggested alternatives
- Achieving Disability Justice: Beyond Ableism & The Imagined Normal - Presentation by Lydia Brown at Inclusive Astronomy 2015
- The Spoon Theory
Webpages and documents
- Designing for screen reader compatibility
- Color Oracle, free color blindness simulator for Windows, Mac, Linux, check your figures/images.
- Illuminating science for blind students, with help from latest tech devices
Accessibility at conferences
- How to make presentations accessible to all
- How not to plan disability conferences
- Accessibility policy of WisCon - An example accessibility policy for a science fiction convention
Accessibility in the classroom
- Making Physics Courses Accessible for Blind Students: strategies for course administration, class meetings and course materials - by Mehan Holt et al. (accepted for publication in The Physics Teacher)
- A comparison of auditory and visual graphs for use in physics and mathematics - 1999 PhD thesis by Stephen Sahyun
- Teaching Chemistry to Students with Disabilities: A Manual for High Schools, Colleges, and Graduate Programs - published by the American Chemical Society (ACS) Committee on Chemists with Disabilities
Organizations
- Working Group on Accessibility and Disability (WGAD) - Part of the American Astronomical Society (AAS)
- Astronomy for Equity and Inclusion - Working Group in the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
- AstroSense
- The International Association for Geoscience Diversity (IAGD)
- Independence Science - Assistive technology company focused on STEM education
Books on disability justice
- DisCrit: Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education edited by D. Conner, B. Ferri, and S. Annamma
- All the Weight of our Dreams: On living racialized autism edited by Lydia X. Z. Brown, E. Ashkenazy, and Morénike Giwa Onaiwu (not yet published as of September 2016)
- Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking edited by Julia Bascom
- QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology edited by Raymond Luczak
- Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence by Robert McRuer
- Criptiques edited by Caitlin Wood