AI is holding up a mirror: disability inclusion and artificial diversity

Artificial intelligence (AI) offers enormous opportunities for disability inclusion. It's revolutionising assistive technologies, allowing disabled people to identify accessible routes and enhance personal mobility and communication. AI's adaptive nature addresses specific individual needs, greatly expanding the possibilities for reasonable accommodation. Additionally, AI like ChatGPT is great for people with energy-deficit conditions (e.g. it can draft …

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Reflections and Ramblings on 2022

It’s been over a year since I last blogged. Like Alissa McCulloch wrote in her latest post, I too am no longer ‘the prickly upstart new librarian shouting into the void about how nothing made sense in libraries, blogging furiously as an escape from the doom and drudgery of entry-level library work, gathering a moderate …

Diversifying OER through inclusive imagery

I attended my first CC Summit last week. I didn't do much Tweeting but I have reflected on one of my favourite sessions that I attended and have included a great list of openly licenced websites that contain diverse and inclusive imagery. Strategies for Assessing and Adapting OER for Inclusion by Suzanne Wakim, Rachel Arteaga …

Deaf anxiety (and how you can help)

I have Deaf anxiety. I’ve only come to realise this during the pandemic because of mandatory mask wearing and my inability to rely on lip reading (which I have been unconsciously doing my whole life). I’m fully deaf in my left ear and moderately deaf in my right. Although, I wear hearing aides most of …