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November 18th, 2009

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Disability History Education Video

By Chally on 18 November, 2009

I wanted to share this Disability History Education video by the Disabled Young People’s Collective. The DYP is based in North Carolina, USA, and is made up of people between the ages of fifteen and twenty-eight. See the DYP website for more. The video is mostly captioned, but the captions can be a bit difficult [...]

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Recommended Reading for November 18

By Anna on 18 November, 2009

Recommended Reading for November 18, 2009

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Ableist Word Profile: Wheelchair Bound

By Anna on 18 November, 2009

I considered making this entire post “People don’t like being told they’re wheelchair bound. Stop doing it. Try ‘wheelchair user’ instead. Thank you.”

Then I remembered how often that argument is rejected.

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Dear Disney & Pixar: Closed Captioning and Audio Descriptions are not “special features”

By Anna on 18 November, 2009

Codeman38 has been bringing people’s attention to the lack of accessibility features available in the rental version of Up: However, Disney (the film’s distributor) released a special rental-only version of the DVD to the three above-mentioned rental chains, which lacks the bonus shorts from the retail DVD, the descriptive audio track, and the captions and [...]

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