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Science Labs

This website provides disability specific accommodations for lab environments to increase accessibility for all people, including people with disabilities.

DO-IT, University of Washington

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Posted by: llaurenlietzke on Mon Nov 28, 2022 at 2:56 p.m.

This article is a great resource for accommodating disabilities in a science lab. Looking at the science labs that I have participated in during my college career some of these improvements could for sure be made. I am happy to see that there was information on many different impairments not just one specific one.

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It took me several years of struggling with the heavy door to my building, sometimes having to wait until a person stronger came along, to realize that the door was an accessibility problem, not only for me, but for others as well. And I did not notice, until one of my students pointed it out, that the lack of signs that could be read from a distance at my university forced people with mobility impairments to expend a lot of energy unnecessarily, searching for rooms and offices. Although I have encountered this difficulty myself on days when walking was exhausting to me, I interpreted it, automatically, as a problem arising from my illness (as I did with the door), rather than as a problem arising from the built environment having been created for too narrow a range of people and situations.

Susan Wendell, author of
The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability