The “Accessible Icon” by Brian Glenney and Sara Hendren began as design activism: the artists defaced existing disability access symbols with red and orange vinyl stickers. Today, their so-called ...
Mara Mills
Mara Mills is Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, where she co-directs the Center for Disability Studies. Her book On the Phone: Hearing Loss and Communication Engineering is forthcoming from Duke University Press. She is currently working on the history of optical character recognition and, with Jonathan Sterne, the history of audio time-stretching technology. 