Submit to the Remote Access Archive

Be part of history: help us build this archive of the power, knowledge and expertise of disabled people.

Who Can Submit Materials?

If you are disabled, Deaf, Mad, Sick, crip, or another related description you can send us stories, documents or other information. If you are part of disability communities (such as being a Child of Deaf Adults [CODA], family member, access worker, etc.), you can send us stories, documents or other information with permission. We will first work on stories and documents from Black, Indigenous, brown, people of color, queer and trans disabled people, poor and working class disabled people, and other people who are often kept out of disability communities.

Please make sure that if other people are in your submission you have permission to share it with us. We will ask you about this in the intake survey.

Ways to Participate

If you have something to share, please fill out the Remote Access Intake Form (Google Forms) or email us. If your stories or documents are a good fit for the archive, we will get back to you with directions about how to send them to us.

1. Send us your story: record (audio or video) - up to five minutes telling us about a time when you used remote access before or during the pandemic. If you would like us to help you record or ask questions about your experience, please let us know in the intake form.
2. Send us your objects, sounds, videos, images, documents, activity protocols, screen shots, or anything else that can help us keep track of how remote access has been created and experienced. You may want to show us the technology you use for remote access, such as cameras or microphones. Make sure to get permission if you are sharing work that includes other people.

How Will My Materials be Used?

The Remote Access Archive will be a free online resource. Anyone with access to the archive will be able to look at, listen to, or use your documents or stories. This includes researchers, activists, and other people. They may use your story to help better understand how disabled people use technology.

We are hiring a web developer to make the archive website accessible. Our website will include: image descriptions and alternative-text, accessible headings, an accessible color scheme, and warnings for content, strobes, and flashing lights.

We will work with people who send documents and stories to the archives to figure out how best to present their work accessibly. If your materials are a good fit, we may include them in an episode of the Contra* podcast with your permission.

Vanderbilt University has determined that this is an IRB exempt project. This means that Vanderbilt University has a process to review and make suggestions about how some types of research projects are done. This review process is to make sure that people are not harmed. Vanderbilt University has determined that there is no risk of harming people in this study.

Production credit: This Simple English/Plain Language project description was produced by Kelsie Acton.

This project is funded by the Social Science Research Council and the National Science Foundation.