Rachel Maddow celebrates the life and accomplishments of Judy Heumann, a tireless advocate for the rights of the disabled who helped secure the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act.
A public consultation by the European Commission has been launched regarding the European Disability Card which seeks to gather the opinion of persons with disabilities, their organizations and other interested stakeholders regarding this new instrument in the making. For as long as I can remember, travelling around the EU as a person with a disability has been a riddle of which benefits and discounts work where and whether a particular institution honours them or not even if I'm not a local. The European Disability Card could change that. You can feel the survey in using the form below, available in all of the 24 EU languages. ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/E… ##Europe #EuropeanUnion #Disability #EU
EUSurvey is an online survey-management system built for the creation and publishing of globally accessible forms, such as user satisfaction surveys and public consultations.
This is a really great guide to help you prepare in advance for the possibility of having covid, and remind you what to do if the worst happens! I've never seen this kind of info all collated together like this before.
Really valuable resource! (especially if like me you have trouble remembering or making plans etc!)
It's 2023 -- Please don't use an overlay if you care about web accessibility, disability inclusion, and a digital world that works for everyone. And please don't call me a "role model" and write about me on your website if you are using an overlay --like a company called Accessibility Checker did. Instead - read the Overlay Fact Sheet and spread the word. overlayfactsheet.com/ Happy New Year - let's get accessibility right in 2023!! #a11y #disability #TechEthics
Just got another link to the sign language gloves asking if I had seen it.
Yes. It’s an old video that seems to make the rounds once a year.
Even though…
#AmListening to Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong. An incredible #memoir by a #disability #activist and all around interesting woman. Always appreciate real world stories of Asian women being productively angry and having a great sense of humor.
If you would like to be up-=to-date with happenings in Europe in regards to blind and partially sighted people, the European Blind Union has just launched a new podcast today called EBU In Action. It is a bit of shameless promo as yours truely is one of the hosts so I hope you don't mind me and we look forward to the feedback. In our pilot, we go over the current campaigns and initiatives the EBU is involved in, we find out about the expectations and fears of blind people regarding Connected and Autonomous Vehicles and we finish off with our correspondent's section where we go to Italy to check what is new for blind people there. If you have suggestions of topics that should be brought up in future episodes, feel free to share. euroblind.org/publications-and… #Accessibility #Blind #Podcast #Europe #CAVs #AutonomousVehicles #Disability #Inclusion
Whether you are disabled or not, accessibility is really useful for everyone. Accessibility makes social media easier to use and lets your posts reach a wider audience.
You can find out how to make your posts more accessible at:
Google Maps is expanding its “Accessible Places” feature, which helps people know when a place is wheelchair accessible and/or stair-free. The feature was originally launched in 2020, but it was limited to just Australia, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S. Now, the feature is available worldwide on Android and iOS.
Google has announced that beginning next week, it will start rolling out the "search in Live View" feature that it teased back in September, which uses the existing Live View technology found in Google Maps but makes it more interactive.
In France, TIER Mobility is piloting wheelchair-accessible electric scooters in partnership with Omni, a French startup that has developed an electric scooter attachment compatible with most wheelchairs.
TIER has joined forces with Omni, a French startup, to provide wheelchair-compatible e-scooter rentals in France, with plans to expand to other countries soon.
📣 On International Day of People with Disabilities, we strengthen our community's resolve to be inclusive for all, and add the following item to our Code of Conduct under behaviors not allowed:
➡️ "Uploading images, audio, or video with Public visibility (appears on Local or Federated timelines) without adding ALT text media descriptions"
⚠️ Effective 1 January, such items may be removed, limited, or other actions taken. We will continue to highlight them as a reminder.
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette, C.L. Polk, Fran Wilde, and Howard Tayler This is the “talking about how to talk about” talk. We begin by reviewing the difference between the medical model …
Great resource! Screen Readers get allot of coverage, but contrast errors are sadly incredibly common and effect hundreds of millions of people with poor eyesight every single day on at least part of almost every app and webpage out there. #A11Y #accessibility #WebAccess #disability #VisionImpaired #VisuallyImpaired #Blind #WebDev #UXDesign
Morgan's Wonderland is the world's first Ultra-Accessible™, family fun park located in San Antonio, Texas. Visit our park to experience accessible rides.
A group of climate activists who focus on disability rights have been pushing for several years for inclusion of disability rights in international climate action pledges.
Contact us at radicalresilience @riseup.net if you want to see the whole Film or organise a screening. We also offer Workshops based on the Film (online or otherwise).
At the moment we are working on a new film about #Disability, chronic illness, and activism.
On our blog radicalresilience.noblogs.org you cant find Resources about the aforementioned subjects as well as our zine "Caring Movements: Chronic Illness and Activism".
Here on Mastodon we toot and boost mostly in English or German.
In searching for an instance to join, I noticed that many do not mention ableism in their ToC. I care about avoiding ableist language, so I picked one that did mention it.
I do notice quite a bit of ableist language in the larger fediverse, so decided to write a blog post of common objections to avoiding ableist language, and my responses to them.
Ableist language is any communication that validates the belief that disabled people/bodies/functioning are less worthy of respect than others. Let’s break this down. In an ethical society, every…
I'm working on a photography project about segregated total institutions for disabled people in Germany.
I'm talking to people who live at these places or did in the past. I need film, lab and scanning costs + whatever my interview partners and models need.
I'm doing this from a disabled perspective. I know these places very well since childhood, but I was lucky enough to not have been forced into living in one of them until now (let's hope it stays that way).
I'm doing mostly analogue photography and I can not afford the cost of it myself. I also want to make sure the people I work with have everything they need. Like transport, accessibility things and if I do find people willing to be in the photographs themselves, I want to pay them.
