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ucaccessnow ,
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Why was July chosen for ? Because the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law on July 26, 1990.

What does it mean that laws are being distorted and torn apart in the US right now? Well, 34 years post-ADA, most places in the US still aren't accessible. Things are better than in 1989, but a "compliance" based approach doesn't work as well as an approach of viewing disabled people as part of your community.

You can make a difference by volunteering accessibility! Don't wait to be compelled by law. Now more than ever, offer accessibility because you want to.

https://archive.org/details/disability-equity-and-justice-demands

@disability @academicchatter @law

leyonhjelm ,
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@ucaccessnow

34 years too many. Repeal the ADA!

@disability @academicchatter

ucaccessnow ,
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When abled people become temporarily disabled and heal again, most forget the they noticed.

When this high school student actually spoke up, at least partly because of a school project on accessibility, she got a taste of how fiercely systemic ableism trains us to defend it.

This doesn't suddenly get better in higher education - it often gets worse.

@disability @academicchatter https://bc.ctvnews.ca/abbotsford-student-s-speech-about-accessibility-challenges-at-her-school-censored-by-administrators-1.6946123

As part of her Grade 12 art activism class, Lexis De Meyer was tasked with investigating accessibility challenges faced by people with disabilities in her community of Abbotsford. Just days after her presenting her report, she broke her ankle playing rugby. She was on crutches, and she learned her own school, Robert Bateman Secondary, is not easy to navigate for students with physical disabilities. “Our school doesn’t have any functioning automatic doors. They are pull doors and very heavy to open, and there is also a latch you have to push and pull. I didn’t have hands to open the door at all, so I needed a hero to get in,” said De Meyer, who also found there were a limited number of elevator keys for the three-storey school, and she didn’t always get one. “My teacher was like, 'Why don’t you write a letter to the principal about this?' Because nobody did that as a part of their project. And I said, 'Absolutely, I will,'” said De Meyer.
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    • leyonhjelm ,
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    @ucaccessnow

    The disabled should be put in camps

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    violetmadder ,
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    @ucaccessnow @disability @academicchatter

    Typical!

    Then she graduated, and what do you want to bet after she left the people in charge at the school just tried to forget about the whole thing?

    ml ,
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    Nothing says "We care about accessibility and equity for disabled people in STEM like 'Go to Google and let their AI handle it""

    @disability @academicchatter

    ml OP ,
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    @JustGrist @disability @academicchatter Yes, this is what I've long said about automation as well.

    gaysis ,
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    @ml and the point is not that it is a "zero effort" solution or "not done by human professionals", the point is that AI-generated captions are not good enough in quality to provide sufficient accessibility, and therefore using AI as only accessibility measure is a fucking poor excuse.

    ucaccessnow ,
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    🧵 What is this? After pushing UC for 4 years now to quit designing buildings where inaccessibility is the default, a main entrance to a building is wheelchair accessible?

    What finally convinced UC Davis, one wonders? @disability @academicchatter

    ucaccessnow OP ,
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    Ah, there's the UC Davis we know. Unnecessary steps because you weren't specifically PAID to do your duty under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act nor to actually make a public university accessible to the public.

    @disability @academicchatter

    leyonhjelm ,
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    @ucaccessnow

    Fuck you. It should be steps twice as high

    @disability @academicchatter

    kshernandez ,
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    Hey y'all! Check out the dope youth created and lead zine!

    I with I'd had something like this as a child. Please share this with your ND youth. @poetry @disability https://nyacproject.wixsite.com/ndexperience/landscapes

    sarahmatthews ,
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    I’ve written some thoughts on Blind Spot: Exploring and Educating on Blindness by Maud Rowell, a short book that packs a punch! These essays are so insightful, writing about issues I’ve been thinking about recently in a far more eloquent way than I could ever manage #BookReview @bookstodon @disability
    https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/84af5c9d-cede-4358-9941-9651cc1497c9

    meganL ,
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    Are there places in the Fediverse where folks who are longtime disabled (i.e. having done some of the work of dismantling their internalized ableism) and are into pan-disability activism are hanging out exchanging ideas and tactics?

    Most of what I see is discussion within silos of one's own disability group (ME, blindness, autism, etc.) or COVID discussion [all of which is great, but I'm looking for more pan-disability stuff to supplement].

    @disability

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