Values

Accessibility, Justice, and Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

• All of our identities intersect. To make systemic change, we cannot look at any of these elements without the other. We engage and reflect notions of representation, access, belonging, and capacity in our services as well as our business practices.

People and Community

• The core of our work is rooted in building structures of accessibility and justice, led by individual people and communities that have been structurally placed into spaces of marginalization. We design solutions that root in the experiences, priorities, needs, and strengths of respective language and disability communities.

Accountability

• It is critical that we never lose sight of our mission and that we keep ourselves aligned with the reasons why we are doing the work we do. Accountability extends beyond communicating insights and findings back to the communities we surveyed. It is ensuring that the individuals we are designing for are direct actors and agents of the change we are seeking to make. It is identifying concrete opportunities to build collectively and collaboratively, and following through.

Accessibility and Language Justice, A Mindset and Design Practice

“When you design for the margins, you design for all.”

- Caeser McDowell, Urban Design Professor at MIT. 

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• Design is the process. Accessibility and Language Justice are how we center people most directly impacted by the design. At Sway B Access, we explore ways to design processes and systems that listen to and serve constituencies across varied experiences.