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<\/a> Image source: Sherm for Disabled And Here, licensed under <\/a> Image source: Sherm for Disabled And Here, licensed under CC-BY 4.0<\/a>.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nIn the second module<\/a>, we made a list of platform affordances and constraints using the lens of access and disability justice. We saw how writers like Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (2018) and Johanna Hedva (2016) point to the way in which digital media can be an effective way for disabled users to create community, share stories, protest, love, learn, and educate. However, as Goggin (2017) pointed out, it\u2019s important to recognize that every platform, medium, and format is limited, and that disability is incredibly diverse. Here, we can invite Elizabeth Ellcessor into the conversation to complicate our understanding of the relationship between digital media and disability.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nIn Restricted Access (2016), Ellcessor outlines the ways in which digital media can be both inaccessible for people with disabilities as well as disabling. Ellcessor argues that \u201cdigital media cultures take for granted an able-bodied user position, potentially restricting access for users with a variety of disabilities\u201d (p. 2). She goes on to explain that \u201caccess must be understood not in terms of availability, affordability, or choice but in terms of an individual\u2019s ability to engage meaningfully with a medium\/technology and its content\u201d (p. 6). In this section, we will begin to explore the ways in which digital media is inaccessible and exclusionary. We will critically consider which bodies our devices and programs are designed for and which bodies are positioned as the exception, needing accommodations and special (often expensive) set-ups. Remember also the ways that disabled people are creative and agentive within these systems, as outlined in Module 3.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/digitaldisabilitystudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/300\/2021\/11\/Activity-label-300x100.png\")
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