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’s campaign, posted footage of Harris sharing her pronouns and offering a description of her appearance in a blue suit as she spoke to disability rights advocates.Andrew Feinberg, White House Correspondent for The Independent, wrote that he was the print pooler at the event as he offered context to the clip.
“She was talking to a room of disability activists, including people who are/were blind,” wrote Feinberg of the clip, which resurfaced after PresidentDisability rights groups previously weighed in on the clip including the American Association for People with Disabilities, which noted that visual descriptions are done to “ensure that everyone can have context that sighted people may take in visually.
“We are glad to see this accessibility practice expanded in government, and hope to see more government leaders give visual self-descriptions in the future!” the group“A lot of the people who are attacking don’t have the perspective and lived experience of people with disabilities and have never asked us,” said Chris Danielsen, who noted that it’s unclear how much blind people request the practice.
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