Access in Focus: A Disability Rights Image Archive

A curated digital archive of the disability rights movement, featuring accessible image descriptions and contextual metadata for research, education, and advocacy.

Black and white photograph of eight boys and young men playing field hockey on a grassy lawn. Three to the right sit in wheelchairs and three stand to the left. One more wheelchair-user is a short distance away to the left, and one lies in the grass.

Field Hockey at Camp Jened

HolLynn D'Lil, Netflix
July 15, 1972
Black and white photograph of Judy Heumann speaking into a microphone. She wears glasses and has a pin-back button reading “Sign 504” on her puffy jacket.

504 Sit-in Speech

HolLynn D'Lil, Netflix
April 5, 1977
Rolling sand dunes under a clear sky

504 Now Occupation

AP Images
April 5, 1977
Black and white photograph of four people arm in arm under a hand-made banner reading “The 0 Busters.” Countless people gather beyond.

The 0 Busters at Gallaudet

Gallaudet University Library Deaf Collection and Archives
March 6, 1988
Black and white photograph of more than 100 people moving in a line down a busy street. The procession approaches a stop light as cars sit in gridlock in an intersection in the distance.

ADAPT's Fight for Justice

Tom Olin, Photographer
September 24, 1989
Seven 1990s disability rights T-shirts are folded and laid out so logos and text are visible.

Disability Rights Activism T-shirts, 1990s

National Museum of American History
January 1, 1990
Amid a crowd of onlookers, a young girl, Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, climbs on hands and knees up gray steps leading to a white building with a dome and columns.

The Capitol Crawl

AP Images
March 12, 1990
Outdoors on a sunny day and in front of a fountain, three people sit around a table as another man and a woman stand behind and look on. The man sitting at the table smiles as he signs a document. The two men to either side sit in wheelchairs.

The Signing of the ADA

The White House Historical Association
July 26, 1990
Black and white photograph of the front line of a march under a banner reading, “‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’ Martin Luther King. Jr.” The crowd fills a city street hemmed on each side with skyscrapers.

Disability Independence Day March

Tari Hartman Squire
July 26, 1993
Muhammad Ali holds a torch with both hands so the flame touches a rope strung across a stadium. Ali wears a white T-shirt, pants, and white sneakers.

Ali Lights the Torch

Sports Illustrated
July 19, 1996
Screenshot with the headline, “W3C Issues Web Content Accessibility Guidelines as a Recommendation.” Sans-serif text is black against a white background.

WCAG 1.0 Press Release

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
May 9, 1999
Mural prototype of a raised fist with the infinity symbol on the wrist is created in amethyst and lilac purple, periwinkle blue, and black. Text at the base of the arm reads, “Black Disabled Lives Matter,” and text above reads “Say Their Names.”

The Black Disabled Lives Matter Symbol

Jennifer White-Johnson
May 31, 2020
Dozens of people walking or using wheelchairs create a procession down a street, coming toward us on a sunny day.

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