Everyday Products for Accessible Living Identified by Individuals with Disabilities

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Prioritizing the User's Perspective: Everyday Products for Accessible Living Identified by Individuals with Disabilities

Join us as we share everyday products for accessible living that have been selected and evaluated by individuals with disabilities. Find out what factors they considered and whether or not they continued to use the products over time and see video demonstrations from the reviewers themselves. The user should be at the center of every product experience and this webinar highlights why this is essential. Day Undefined is an online marketplace of everyday products for accessible living, where there is a real review from someone with a physical disability behind every product.

LEARNING OBJECTIVE

• Gain insight into how individuals with disabilities have evaluated and used certain products for greater accessibility in their daily life.

Earn up to 1.00 Contact hour.

Sponsored by: www.DayUndefined.com

SPEAKERS

Liam Dougherty

Liam Dougherty is completely immersed in the disability community. He is a board member of both Disabled in Action and the support coordination agency Liberty Community Connections, and a longtime member of ADAPT. He currently works with the Philadelphia Department of Public Health as the Access and Functional Needs Coordinator. He previously worked as a Project Coordinator at the disability advocacy nonprofit and Center for Independent Living (CIL) Liberty Resources. He received his BA in Liberal Arts at St. John’s College and his Masters in Public Administration from the University of Pennsylvania. Liam has a rare genetic disability called Friedreich’s ataxia and uses a wheelchair and many other adaptive products. He has personally felt the indignity and discomfort in buying the things that he hopes will make his life easier and wants to make a change to bring the disability community into the 21st century. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two children. 

Kate Leader

Kate Leader is co-founder of Day Undefined, a company committed to advancing accessible living through everyday products that deliver value to the disability community. Kate’s sister has a rare disease called spinocerebellar ataxia. While helping her shop for “adaptive” products, it became clear that a lot could (and should) be done to re-think how products are curated, focusing on their usefulness and user experiences rather than just their label. Most recently, Kate was a German Chancellor Fellow. Prior to that, she helped launch Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania and was a Fulbright Public Policy Fellow in Haiti. She has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MPhil from the University of Oxford.