Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Disability Studies and Rhetoric 5
Eugenics and Colonial Science 11
Snapshots of Exclusion 20
A Note on (Plain) Language and (Open) Access 31
Coda: Ableist Apologia 35
1 Steep Steps 41
Steep Steps to Ivory Towers 44
Eugenic Mergers 49
Building Disability 53
Sickness and Wellness 56
Climbing the Steep Steps 58
Creating Steep Steps 61
2 The Retrofit 67
Defeat Devices 73
Cover Your Ass 75
The Affect of Accommodation 79
From Eradication to Negotiation 84
Digital Curb Cuts (to Nowhere) 86
#AcademicAbleism 89
"A Rights-Demanding Bunch" 95
3 Imaginary College Students 99
Somnolent Samantha 101
Super Samantha 103
Slow Samantha 107
Critical Multimodality 113
4 Universal Design 115
Deep, Transformative, Tolerant, Redundant 118
On Futurity 121
Bringing Disability, Usability, and Universal Design Together 125
Histories 126
Critiquing Usability and Universal Design 129
Futures for Disability, Usability, and Universal Design 131
We Need to Talk about Universal Design 132
Posing Problems 134
Interest Convergence 135
We Need to Talk about Universal Design in the Neoliberal University 138
Landmarks 141
The Digital Lives of Universal Design 143
Checklistification and Neurorhetorics 145
5 Disability on Campus, on Film: Framing the Failures of Higher Education 153
Segregating Difference 156
The Educational Construction of Disability 164
Failure and Refusal 171
The Disabled Professor: How to Win an Oscar 175
Not Yet 178
Commencement 185
Notes 193
Bibliography 205
Index 223
