During the leadup to the now-extended deadline for large public entities such as colleges and universities to ensure accessible digital materials as mandated by Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), I’ve been drawn to a number of overlapping rhetorics. In this post, I want to first narrate three vignettes from recent experiences considering and discussing digital accessibility before examining those scenes set against rhetorics of resistance, academic freedom, and care. Scene 1: Browsing the internet On the Typewriter Revolution website, where we are called to “resist the artificial,” a remixed WWII poster (Figure 1) centers a young,…
Author: Joseph Torok
Joseph Torok
I (he/him) am an Associate Professor of Teaching in the English Department at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where I teach technical communication, composition, editing, and publishing courses. My scholarly interests include writing program administration (assessment and professional development), bibliometrics, accessibility, and disability studies.