Toward an Access-Oriented Field: Reciprocity as a Guiding Principle for Capacity-Building in Technical Communication

Brian Le Lay; Dan Card

doi:10.1145/3513130.3558974

Toward an Access-Oriented Field: Reciprocity as a Guiding Principle for Capacity-Building in Technical Communication

Brian Le Lay, Dan Card

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Abstract

Technical communicators are uniquely positioned to promote accessibility as teachers, researchers, administrators, and practitioners. Participatory design is often positioned as the exemplary advocacy practice on ethical and epistemic grounds. We argue that the participatory/non-participatory dichotomy is enriched by an understanding of how a variety of practices work together as parts of a career-long learning process. For that purpose, we propose the principle of reciprocity as a useful addition to TC's disability and accessibility lexicon. We present a three-part framework for evaluating different kinds of access-oriented practices.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 40th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2022
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	24-31
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450392464
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3513130.3558974
State	Published - Oct 6 2022
Event	40th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2022 - Boston, United States Duration: Oct 6 2022 → Oct 8 2022

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Name	Proceedings of the 40th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2022

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Conference	40th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2022
Country/Territory	United States
City	Boston
Period	10/6/22 → 10/8/22

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© 2022 ACM.

Keywords

Participatory design
access
disability
technical communication
user advocacy

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Le Lay, B., & Card, D. (2022). Toward an Access-Oriented Field: Reciprocity as a Guiding Principle for Capacity-Building in Technical Communication. In Proceedings of the 40th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2022 (pp. 24-31). (Proceedings of the 40th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2022). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3513130.3558974

Toward an Access-Oriented Field: Reciprocity as a Guiding Principle for Capacity-Building in Technical Communication. / Le Lay, Brian; Card, Dan.
Proceedings of the 40th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2022. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2022. p. 24-31 (Proceedings of the 40th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2022).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Le Lay, B & Card, D 2022, Toward an Access-Oriented Field: Reciprocity as a Guiding Principle for Capacity-Building in Technical Communication. in Proceedings of the 40th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2022. Proceedings of the 40th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2022, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 24-31, 40th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2022, Boston, United States, 10/6/22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3513130.3558974

Le Lay B, Card D. Toward an Access-Oriented Field: Reciprocity as a Guiding Principle for Capacity-Building in Technical Communication. In Proceedings of the 40th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2022. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2022. p. 24-31. (Proceedings of the 40th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2022). doi: 10.1145/3513130.3558974

Le Lay, Brian ; Card, Dan. / Toward an Access-Oriented Field : Reciprocity as a Guiding Principle for Capacity-Building in Technical Communication. Proceedings of the 40th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2022. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2022. pp. 24-31 (Proceedings of the 40th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2022).

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