RespectAbility
Project Title
For support of a nonpartisan effort to engage and educate voters with disabilities
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Sixty-one million Americans have a disability, yet electoral candidates often fail to engage voters with disabilities or incorporate disability issues into their policy agenda. Campaign events continue to be held in inaccessible buildings without American Sign Language interpreters and other accommodations, campaign videos are being shared without captions for those who are hard of hearing, and much more. Founded in 2013, RespectAbility works to reduce implicit bias against people with disabilities and advance their opportunities in workplaces and in American democracy. Beginning in 2015, RespectAbility has helped to elevate disability issues in employment, education, and immigration to the foreground of political discourse. With Corporation support, RespectAbility will produce nonpartisan electoral resources for voters with disabilities in all fifty states, advance a disability lens in policy discussions, and implement targeted Get-Out-the-Vote efforts in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, California, Texas, and Washington, D.C.