在VidCon大会上，Peet Montzingo与Imani Barbarin、Briel Adams-Wheatley和Valentine兄弟的Pat Valentine共同探讨了“面向所有人的无障碍环境：在线和现实世界的包容性空间”这一主题。小组成员分享了他们作为创作者倡导残疾人权利的经验。Pat Valentine代表他的兄弟Zach（唐氏综合征患者）发言，Imani Barbarin和Briel Wheatley-Adams则分享了各自的经历。讨论重点是残疾人在日常生活中面临的挑战，以及倾听残疾人声音的重要性。

🗣️ Imani Barbarin认为，无障碍性是想象力和实践的结合。她认为残疾人是世界上最具创造力的人，因为他们每天都需要适应环境。

🤝 Pat Valentine指出，作为一个社区和社会，实现无障碍性实际上是尊重声音、倾听残疾人的声音，并将他们融入日常生活和日常对话。

🌍 Wheatley表示，每个人都有残疾，无论他们是否承认，无论是身体上、精神上还是情感上，我们都应该存在于任何地方。

💡 Barbarin强调，残疾人很少被视为自己故事和经历的可靠讲述者，因此其他人成为了我们的权威，这使得我们在一个已经剥夺了我们声音的社会中为自己辩护变得更加困难。

At VidCon, creator Peet Montzingo was joined by Imani Barbarin, Briel Adams-Wheatley, and Pat Valentine of the Valentine Brothers at the panel, Accessibility for All: Creating Inclusive Spaces Online and IRL.

The panel came together to discuss their experience as creators advocating for disability rights. Pat Valentine makes videos with his brother Zach, who was born with Down syndrome, and represented the duo on the panel, while Imani Barbarin and Briel Wheatley-Adams were able to speak to their own experience.

When asked how accessibility overlaps in their personal and professional lives, Barbarin said, "I personally view accessibility as imagination and practice. I think that disabled people are some of the most creative people on the planet, because we have to adapt every single day to our environment."

Valentine noted, "Being accessible as a community and as society is really just honoring voices, listening to disabled people, and including them in everyday life and everyday conversations."

While Wheatley said, "Everyone has a disability, if they want to admit it to themselves or not, whether that's physically, mentally, or emotionally, and we all deserve to be somewhere and everywhere.

The panel's conversation focused on navigating disability in the everyday world, and as Barbarin wisely put it, "the disability math" that is required every day to navigate the world. Much of the dialogue focused on the importance of visibility, noting how the disabled community was institutionalized during the Industrial Revolution, and the importance of listening to disabled voices rather than speaking for them.

As Barbarin put it, "Disabled people are rarely seen as reliable narrators of their own stories and experiences, and so everybody else becomes an authority upon us, and it makes it so much harder to actually advocate for ourselves against the backdrop of a society that has stolen our voices from us."