By Annaham on 7 June, 2010
Recently, I read this odd article, penned by Judith Warner, in the New York Times–one in a stream of many that detail how excessively awful the current generation of young people (read: young workers) is at putting its collective nose to the grindstone, sucking it up, and generally not acting like a bunch of brats, [...]
Posted in accessibility, age, autonomy, blaming, politics, social attitudes, work | Tagged ableism, chronic pain, disabled youth, education, erasing, higher education, invisibility, labor, mental illness, myths and misconceptions, paid work, personal, privilege, problematic attitudes, right to work, university, we're right here, work, workplace accommodations
By s.e. smith on 7 June, 2010
The other day, I was bemoaning, as I occasionally do, the fact that HBO doesn’t provide digital content for people who are not HBO subscribers or who can’t get HBO where they are. I happen to be a fan of several HBO shows and I would really like to watch them as they air, rather [...]
Posted in accessibility | Tagged captioning, captions, digital media, iTunes, why is this hard
By Anna on 7 June, 2010
Description: Bright yellow button: Disabled People Want Jobs! Employment Equity Now! PSA: Opt-Out Required to Prevent Your Yahoo! Mail Contacts From Being Used for Social Network Earlier this week, Yahoo! announced a plan to try to leverage its Yahoo! Mail users’ contacts into a social network of friends who will receive your Yahoo! Updates. Once [...]
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