I was required to read something that was very triggering at a bad time and I told my professor how the reading affected me. I don’t remember what she said, but telling her felt good.

Otherwise I think (and mostly hope) that my uni is making some efforts… though if all the building work they’ve been doing doesn’t improve accessibility like they said vaguely it will, I may have to start writing again.

I spent four years of medical school writing to individual professors or administration about my own issues of accessibility and acommodations, and of examples of ablism in the curriculum.

I got responses ranging from “I had no idea and I won’t say that again” to a vague and placating “there, there, that is a problem, isn’t it” with no action ever taken to the usual accusations of whining and taking things too personally. Heavily weighted towards the accusations of whining and taking things too personally, of course. But the few victories were glorious, and I kept writing in the hopes that someday, we will raise consiousness enough that the vague placations turn into true change, even if the accusations never progress towards vaguary.

Patrick, the fact that you think that both we were ignorant of supposedly agreeing to being treated like an experiment rather than a person, and that you think even if we had agreed to be treated like an experiment rather than a person than it’s okay to *hurt us* without even a “by your leave” says very sad things about the medical profession as a whole.

In fact, here’s how the site appears on the iPhone browser:

Of course, the “click to download” link leads to a page telling me that Flash is not available for the device I’m using. I imagine it would work the same way under Linux on my old G4 PowerBook, right down to the “download Flash” link being completely useless.

So in other words, this isn’t just a disability access nightmare. It’s just an accessibility nightmare in general.