Accessibility Advocacy

The practice of promoting, educating others about, and pushing for the adoption of accessible practices in digital and physical environments. In online spaces, accessibility advocacy often falls disproportionately on people with disabilities themselves, who must repeatedly remind content creators, platform developers, and organizations to adopt inclusive practices — such as adding alt text to images or captioning videos. This "advocacy burden" is well-documented in social media research, where blind users report feeling exhausted by constantly having to educate their networks about accessibility while simultaneously being excluded by the inaccessible content those networks produce. Effective accessibility advocacy requires structural support from platforms and organizations, not just individual effort from disabled users.