Desk Rejects and Journals' Accessibility Awareness Gaps
As you can probably tell I am on a bit of a resources and resourcing theme these last few weeks. This is because I have been thinking deeply about information sources, digital resources being erased from the Internet because of policy and politics, and the overall culture of subscription over ownership when it comes to spaces that share information or help create information. This week I want to talk about academic journals and the disservice academic journals do to disabled folk and folk who work in accessibility space. I have written previously about how academic editors have this tendency to try edit out "neurodivergent voice" or framing in journal articles and books and this is the same kind of editing discourse that has been part of generative AI conversations. Questions like whose voice is being echoed by these tools? What assumptions are being made when information is delivered? But there is a similar sort of editorial barrier and exclusionary thinking when it comes to...