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7. Mental Health

Ashley Firth1  
(1)
London, UK
 

Design is what mediates our interaction with the internet. It’s the language we read it in. It’s not too much to ask that that language is comprehensible and honest.

—Harry Brignull

Of all the disabilities we have discussed so far, mental health impairments have arguably seen the biggest increase in exposure over the last few years, and yet our understanding of them is very much still forming. Consequently, the way we think about mental health on the Web is in a state of flux. While some mental health disorders, like depression and

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