<story><title>Previews of software updates designed for people with disabilities</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/05/apple-previews-powerful-software-updates-designed-for-people-with-disabilities/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tolbish</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure how much that definition holds water. Am I disabled if I&amp;#x27;m temporarily not able to do cognitive work?</text></item><item><author>robin_reala</author><text>Actually, that’s an important point. A person with an occupied hand is still disabled, but it’s a situational disability rather than a temporary or permanent one. Disability is society’s inability to cater to specific needs, rather than a physical state.</text></item><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>This is really good stuff, even for abled people. For example, being able the use the watch one-handed is great if your other hand is occupied, like carrying something.&lt;p&gt;(The reason I still wear a watch at all is so I can see the time without having to dig the phone out of my pocket and turn it on, which is hopeless while driving.)&lt;p&gt;Just like although I can hear, I use closed-captioning when I don&amp;#x27;t wish to disturb others, or when watching a show at high speed (I can read faster than I can understand speech).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wittyreference</author><text>Yes.&lt;p&gt;As a physician, I wish more folks appreciated that “disability” is a property of the relationship between a person and their environment, and can emerge (or disappear) based on changes in that persons capability as well as changes in their environment.&lt;p&gt;For an obvious example: a patient with reversible heart failure can’t walk without severe shortness of breath today, but they can in three months. Today they need disabled parking; three months from now they do not.</text></comment>
<story><title>Previews of software updates designed for people with disabilities</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/05/apple-previews-powerful-software-updates-designed-for-people-with-disabilities/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tolbish</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure how much that definition holds water. Am I disabled if I&amp;#x27;m temporarily not able to do cognitive work?</text></item><item><author>robin_reala</author><text>Actually, that’s an important point. A person with an occupied hand is still disabled, but it’s a situational disability rather than a temporary or permanent one. Disability is society’s inability to cater to specific needs, rather than a physical state.</text></item><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>This is really good stuff, even for abled people. For example, being able the use the watch one-handed is great if your other hand is occupied, like carrying something.&lt;p&gt;(The reason I still wear a watch at all is so I can see the time without having to dig the phone out of my pocket and turn it on, which is hopeless while driving.)&lt;p&gt;Just like although I can hear, I use closed-captioning when I don&amp;#x27;t wish to disturb others, or when watching a show at high speed (I can read faster than I can understand speech).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shadowoflight</author><text>Yes, and if we as a society were more accepting of these types of situational disabilities, workplaces would be much healthier.</text></comment>