TL;DR
The “Disability Equality Index” or “DEI” seems to be partially renamed to “Disability Index” or “DI” by Disability:IN. The organization’s partner in this tool, the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), still references it as “Disability Equality Index”.
With no known public communications from Disability:IN on the rename, it’s reasonable to believe the tool is being renamed to change its acronym from DEI to DI because of the Trump Administration’s barrage of anti-DEI (short for Diversity Equity and Inclusion) actions.
Updates since original publish
2/6/25 @ 12:15pm ET: I’ve received a tip that some information has been shared by Disability:IN in an email newsletter. I am not subscribed to the newsletter and I have not yet seen this email. I will update as I have more information.
2/6/25 @ 12:08pm ET: I sent an email to disabilityequalityindex@disabilityin.org (the previous contact email address) and index@disabilityin.org (the current contact email address) inquiring about the name change, if there has been any public commentary from Disability:IN, or if there are plans for public commentary.
Recent Disability:IN LinkedIn posts
Looking at the organization’s recent LinkedIn posts, “Disability Equality Index” was last mentioned in a post within the past week (at the original time of writing). The body of the post uses “Disability Index” while the image and image description use “Disability Equality Index.”
Two posts before that, also published within the past week, contains the first mention of “Disability Index.” Like the previously mentioned post, “Disability Equality Index” is still used in the post’s image and image description.
The tool’s new logo makes an appearance in a post from 6 days ago (after both of the two previously pictured posts). Compared to the “Disability Equality Index” logo, it looks nearly the same with the word “Equality” removed.
The AAPD website
As noted on the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) website, the scoring tool in question “is a joint initiative of Disability:IN and AAPD.” This website still uses the name “Disability Equality Index.”
The Disability:IN Linktree
Disability:IN’s Linktree, which is referenced in the organization’s now-private X.com account bio, uses both “Disability Equality Index” and “Disability Index.”
Following the “2025 Disability Equality Index Registration” link goes to a form that uses “Disability Index.”
The Disability:IN website
Starting from the Disability:IN home page, there’s a call-to-action section for the 2025 Disability Index:
That link goes to the main “Disability Index” page.
Following the second CTA link, “Explore the 2024 Disability Index Report,” goes to the URL: https://disabilityin.org/2024-di-report/. This is the HTML version of the report which has a PDF link at the top of the page.
At the time of writing, the linked PDF’s cover:
Navigating back up to the home page, and following the “Resources” > “Library” link in the primary navigation, you arrive at the Resource Library page. In the featured resources section, the “Disability Equality Index” name is referenced.
Following the “2024 Disability Equality Index Report” link (https://disabilityin.org/resource/2024-disability-equality-index-report/), we’re taken to a different page than the HTML version of the report (pictured above). This page sits within the “Resources” section of the website and has multiple references to the “Disability Equality Index” name.
Navigating back up again, the Disability:IN website Site Map (which is linked in the website’s footer region at the bottom of pages) no longer contains the word “equality” but several URLs for text that previously used “Disability Equality Index” still contain the “DEI” acronym.
Disability:IN website internal search results
Some on-site search results for “dei” still reference “Disability Equality Index” and the “DEI” acronym. The URLs associated with these search results also reference these, but they redirect to new URLs.
Example one of three
The search result:
The linked page (not a redirect):
The page linked from there (which redirects to https://disabilityin.org/what-we-do/disability-index/di-best-practices/):
Example two of three
The search result:
The linked page (not a redirect):
The cover of the linked 2022 report:
Example three of three
The search result:
A snippet from the linked page (which redirects from https://disabilityin.org/resources2/best-practices/ to https://disabilityin.org/resources2/best-practices-2/):
The PDF linked from that page:
