Knowledge is Power (Midterm Project)

Amazing project! Your website covers so many important aspects of disability, and the logical layout and simple wording used really helps to make the information accessible to a wide range of viewers. I wonder if there might be a way to eventually incorporate other forms of information such as pictures/videos/etc, but I know this would be a ton of extra work and the website is quite accessible as currently designed. I was also thinking about the potential use of color and the effects that this could have: on the one hand, it might make the website even more engaging or could help people more easily differentiate between the different sections, but on the other hand it might end up being distracting, making it less accessible to those who are color blind or have other impairments that may make reading text in different colors difficult, or changing the tone of the website to something too 'fun' and therefore taking away from the gravity of the topics addressed. 

I also had some other small questions and notes about choices you made and a couple potential edits in case it's helpful. First, I noticed that you listed both "neuroatypical" and "neurodiverse" (which I think should maybe be "neurodivergent" instead, based on your definition) in your "terminology" section with very similar descriptions, and was wondering if there's any important distinction between them and if you've seen both used by the disability community? (This also made me think of other more informal words like "neurospicy" I've heard neurodivergent people use, and wonder what other disability slang might exist and if you could add this as another section in your terminology page.) I frequently hear "neurodivergent," but I'm not sure that I've heard "neuroatypical" being used before, and I also noticed that "neuroatypical" seems to have a more negative connotation to me, maybe because it sounds so similar to "abnormal" and also clearly dividing the "typical/normal" vs "atypical/abnormal" brain. (This idea of typical vs atypical itself feels also seems like an arbitrary distinction because everyone's brains are slightly different and the line between typical and atypical is therefore defined largely by society's exclusion of certain people, rather than any distinct anatomical/physiological difference dividing the "typical" from the "abnormal.")

Some other potential edits in case they could be helpful: the "laws," "current administration," and "legal assistance" buttons on your "2025 and beyond" page all seem to lead back to the "institutional level resources" page that was also linked under the "resources" tab. I also noticed that you have "Crip" listed twice in the "Warning" section of the "Terminology" page and was wondering if you meant to delete the one that currently seems unfinished. 

Lastly, I loved the idea of the "Care For Yourself" section, and I wonder if the list of movies/books/etc with good representations of disability that we've been creating in class could be a good starting point to expand this section. Again, I know this would be a ton of work to update, but if you were feeling motivated to continue adding to it it could be helpful to pull from this list rather than having to come up with everything from scratch again. Overall, I think you did a really good job of implementing a lot of the things we've talked about in class in terms of accessibility/plain language/etc in designing this website, and the website itself has so many great resources for disabled people! Nice job :)