Providing Clean Air in Indoor Spaces: Moving Beyond Accommodations Towards Barrier Removal
Framing unclean air as a barrier in the built environment may help secure the benefit of indoor air quality standards.

Framing unclean air as a barrier in the built environment may help secure the benefit of indoor air quality standards.

The ‘needs’ of people who find themselves confronting disability and illness should not be marginalized, as they are simply modes of the human condition.

As more of the workforce returns to the office, some employers are pushing back on the increased accommodations realized during the pandemic.

People with physical impairments can be enabled or disabled by the world around them.

Employers must take steps to ensure that remote work accommodations are not made at the expense of the employee.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the shortcomings of our current disability laws and policies, particularly those related to economic insecurity.

Conservative jurisprudence during the pandemic is at odds with the goal of full, in-person employment.

This shift in our workplace culture presents employment opportunities for disabled people that they may not have had in the past.

Workplaces are, by and large, no longer safe for employees who are high-risk for serious illness or death from COVID-19.

A health justice approach would confront how ableism has influenced the development of reasonable accommodations law.
