As UX designers, we advocate for accessibility in our products, services, and experiences every day. But we often overlook our own workplaces. To make our teams and workplaces more inclusive for everyone, we need to be aware of the unintended barriers that we create for our current and potential employees who have physical or mental disabilities — which have surprising parallels to familiar concepts in UX. As a UX designer with hearing loss, Quinn will explore some of these barriers in connection to his own experiences, and share how we're uniquely positioned to take an active role in removing barriers in our workplaces to build stronger teams.
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40% of Canadians
with profound
hearing loss are
unemployed.
“Employment and Employability.” Canadian Association of the
Deaf - Association Des Sourds Du Canada,
cad.ca/issues-positions/employment-and-employability.
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Another 40% are
underemployed.
“Employment and Employability.” Canadian Association of the
Deaf - Association Des Sourds Du Canada,
cad.ca/issues-positions/employment-and-employability.
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Only 20% of Canadians
with profound hearing
loss have full-time
employment.
“Employment and Employability.” Canadian Association
of the Deaf - Association Des Sourds Du Canada,
cad.ca/issues-positions/employment-and-employability.
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1 in 8 people in Canada & Germany
live with a disability.
“7.8 million severely disabled people living in Germany.” - Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis),
destatis.de/EN/PressServices/Press/pr/2018/06/PE18_228_227.html.
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I would like to invite you to the first
step of the process: a conversation
with one of our team members. We
typically use Skype, but let me know
if you’d like to use another method.
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Have you forgotten, misunderstood,
or missed something said in a
meeting because you were tired,
busy, or distracted, or because the
speaker mumbled or misspoke?
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Person, 9:30
I have a concern: how did it work
until now with the hearing problem?
We need to ask this, as we have
many meetings and stand ups.
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“Disclosing an autism diagnosis
at work can hinder
advancement. People’s low
expectations of me were
noticeable.”
Sara Luterman (@slooterman)
“Disclosure of Autism at Work Holds Risks and Benefits.” Spectrum | Autism Research News, 17 Sept.
2018, www.spectrumnews.org/opinion/viewpoint/disclosure-autism-work-holds-risks-benefits/.
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If you expect something to be the
case, you’ll find or interpret evidence
to support it while discounting or
ignoring evidence that contradicts it.