Open tesseralis opened 4 years ago
Thanks for submitting, @tesseralis ! Yes, that's been my observation as well wrt what the disabled folks I follow on Twitter say; I've mostly seen people with disabilities (PwD) used by able-bodied people who work in accessibility.
I also think that on other axes, person-first language is a positive thing when in the case of race "Black people" versus "Blacks" and "Asian people" versus "Asians."
I think ourse of action to not put this entire labour on a disabled person could be for me to write an entry and ask for sensitivity readers.
"Person-first language" describes language that puts the identifier after the name, e.g. "person with disabilities" instead of "disabled person", "person with autism" rather than "autistic person". From what I gather from Disability Twitter, many disabled folks don't actually like it, or consider it complicated:
I feel like this is an important topic to cover since it's considered "recommended" language in some guides (for example, retext-equality), but being abled I don't think I have the necessary context to cover the nuance of the topic in its entirety.