By Chally on 1 December, 2010
Also see: An open letter to abled people who use disabled parking spaces by Annaham, which this is jumping off from. Since I drafted this, s.e. also wrote Dear Imprudence: Who Appointed You the Parking Police?! Dear abled people who like to glare at people who use disabled parking spaces, Hi there. It’s great that [...]
Posted in 101, accessibility, i'm right here, invisibility, othering, shaming | Tagged ableism, accessibility, accessible parking, problematic attitudes, what the pancake
By Anna on 30 November, 2010
I haven’t even had time to process this yet – I just found out when my friend called me to ask if I had heard the news. Donna Jodham has won her case against the Canadian Government – Government websites will now have 15 months to follow their own accessibility guidelines. Canada must make Web [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged accessibility, anna throws a party and everyone's invited, canada, donna jodham, web content
By s.e. smith on 2 November, 2010
Here in the US, the long-awaited midterm elections have arrived at last. As I think readers know, I take voting pretty seriously and adore voting, even though there are some pretty stark problems with the political process in the United States. This open thread is for people to talk about their voting experiences (you don’t [...]
Posted in events | Tagged accessibility, ballots, elections, voting
By Guest on 28 October, 2010
Diane Shipley is a freelance writer obsessed with feminism, US TV, memoirs and pizza. She writes about those things and more at her blog, the imaginatively-named Diane Shipley Blogs (http://blog.dianeshipley.com) and is almost always on Twitter (username: @dianeshipley). You’re intelligent, personable, and get good grades. It might look like higher education is a given. But [...]
Posted in Education, guest post | Tagged accessibility, barriers to access, education, guest post, higher education, personal stories, university
By Anna on 28 October, 2010
I think it would be awesome instead of telling me how much they cared, they’d show it. And one way of doing that would be subtitling their ads, so everyone can know what their message is.
Posted in accessibility, how to be accessible, invisibility, technology, television | Tagged accessibility, canada, canadian politics, captioning, closed captions, conservative party of canada, Deaf, disability, green party of canada, hard of hearing, invisible disability, liberal party of canada, NDP, new democratic party, political ads, subtitles, voting
By Ouyang Dan on 25 October, 2010
I have a little bit of a problem with people being handed down a mandate that insists they behave in a certain way or adhere to a certain set of guidelines for which they are not provided the means to do so. Usually, these rules or mandates are set by people whose lives the rules [...]
Posted in activism, blaming, bodies, disability activism, intersectionality, invisibility, medical practice, oyd rants, social attitudes | Tagged abled privilege, ableism, accessibility, barriers to access, blaming, cancer treatment, chronic illness, disability, health care is an accessibility issue, intersectionality, medical care, radiation, Representative Edward Markey, social treatment, thyroid cancer
By Ouyang Dan on 14 October, 2010
Warning: Offsite links are not safe spaces. Articles and comments in the links may contain ableist, sexist, and other -ist language and ideas of varying intensity. Opinions expressed in the articles may not reflect the opinions held by the compiler of the post and links are provided as topics of interest and exploration only. I [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged ableism, abuse, accessibility, disability, intersectionality
By Annaham on 12 October, 2010
Darshak Sangavi at Slate: Should you crowdsource your medical problems? To be sure, many patients with complex or poorly understood medical problems like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis congregate in large virtual communities such as PatientsLikeMe, where they share details of their medical treatments and symptoms with each other—and occasionally even launch their own unregulated and informal [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged accessibility, communication, DLA, female sexual disfunction, gender, government benefits, information and communication technology, internet, Internet use, medical practice, technology
By Anna on 11 October, 2010
(via email) Participants are needed for a study of cell phone based emergency services. Researchers at the Neil Squire Society are conducting a study to look at how 911 emergency calls and emergency disaster alerts on cellular phones can be made more accessible. The goal of this project is to get input from actual cell [...]
Posted in signal boost | Tagged accessibility, blind, canada, canadian, cell phone, study
By Anna on 11 October, 2010
(Via email) Dear Friends, The Topic Guides on ADA Transportation, a series of technical assistance documents funded by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and developed by DREDF and TranSystems Corporation, will be featured in a series of seven once-a-month webinars, one webinar on each Topic Guide. The webinar series will be coordinated by the DBTAC [...]
Posted in signal boost | Tagged accessibility, accessible transport, ADA, americans with disabilities act, United States, webinar
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