Try Out "Inclusion Daily Express" Disability Rights News Service
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jesse_the_kFor the last decade, I've been fortunate to receive the Inclusion Daily Express, an email-based news service. As their blurb promises
Inclusion Daily is well worth the annual cost of US$160. That might seem too much to pay, but you can specify ten email recipients for each subscription. If you're part of a working group, an agency, a school district, just one sub can keep everyone in the loop, you choose whether it's weekly or every weekday.
I've been able to keep up on disability-related news from all over. I find the info inspires me to action, provides examples, educates about other people working on "my" issues, and helps me know my place in the movement and the world.
You can try two weeks for free, and see if it's for you.
Here's a sample of what I found in the last two weeks, thanks to Inclusion Daily Express
Toddlers Or Ayatollahs? Subtitling Errors Can Make Live TV Unwatchable
(The Guardian)
January 30, 2015
LONDON, ENGLAND—[Excerpt] Deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers could be forgiven for being baffled after subtitling mistakes transformed toddlers into ayatollahs and confused sources with sauces.
The errors were highlighted in a report by communications watchdog Ofcom that said people relying on live subtitles had an "inferior" experience to other viewers.
Other examples of mistakes included the Star Wars character Princess Leia being called "Present Cesc lay ya" and lemon transcribed as "lepl on".
The report also quoted examples of what it called "serious recognition errors" including "they need a man" instead of "they need a mum" and "be given to ayatollahs" instead of "be given to our toddlers".
The issue was previously taken up by former home secretary David Blunkett who criticised subtitling standards and quoted an example from football commentary where Manchester United's Patrice Evra's challenge on an opponent was rendered as "the Arsenal player has been fouled by a zebra."
Entire article:
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/28/subtitling-errors-can-make-live-tv-unwatchable-says-ofcom
Inclusion Daily is text-only, but I can't resist this picture from the Guardian (described below)
image description:
TV news screen grab with Arabic logo lower right, two figures in dark clothes standing on sand dune; captions read "unintended consequence feeds another.Isla miss her lover power"
So, I use captions. I loathe the state of live captioning, and I'm dismayed at the falling quality of offline captioning, as more services enter the market with seemingly no understanding of what good captioning means. From thousands of miles away, this article raises the question: Does the US's FCC* investigate caption quality? Do they supply a "how to do it" manual? Could I do something to help increase caption excellence?
*parallel agency to UK's Ofcom
Wheelchair Users Sue Major Hotel Companies For Inaccessible Transportation
(Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center)
January 23, 2015
DENVER, COLORADO-- [Excerpt] The Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center (CREEC), along with three individuals who use wheelchairs for mobility, today filed federal class action lawsuits against three major hotel owner/operators, RLJ Lodging Trust, Hospitality Properties Trust, and Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. Each lawsuit alleges that the hotel owner/operator discriminates against individuals with mobility disabilities in the provision of hotel shuttle transportation.
These three entities own or operate more than 500 hotels in the United States, including more than 50 in California.
Specifically, the cases challenge the hotels' consistent failure to provide accessible options when they choose to offer transportation services to guests, and charge that this failure violates the federal Americans with Disabilities Act and California state law.
"For those of us who use wheelchairs and other mobility devices, it is difficult enough to get around most cities when we travel," said Ruthee Goldkorn, a plaintiff in two of the cases who uses a wheelchair for mobility. "As it stands at these hotels, all other hotel guests can get shuttled around the city to events, the airport, and downtown attractions, but we just get left at the hotel. I joined this lawsuit to make hotel transportation services accessible for everyone."
Entire article:
Wheelchair Users Sue Major Hotel Companies for Inaccessible Transportation
http://creeclaw.org/hotel-transportation-cases-filed/
Now this is highly relevant to my SF fan interests. Most cons are held in hotels; every hotel shuttle I've seen can't carry a powerchair. Sharing this info with other fans enables them to better advocate.
Disability Campaigner Sees Dramatic Change Over 50 Years Of Effort
(Irish Times)
January 27, 2015
DUBLIN, IRELAND-- [Excerpt] Martin Naughton faced the precipice. Fourteen steep concrete steps outside the Mater Hospital in Dublin stood between him and his ill friend inside.
It was 1972 and few hospitals had special access areas for people with disabilities. He had to be hauled up the steps to get inside. After visiting his friend, he wheeled himself out the doors and a man helped to tilt his chair backwards and eased him carefully towards the edge. That's when it all went wrong.
"The guy that was holding me at the back slipped," he says. "I came down. Bump! Bump! Bump! And I could see stars!"
Naughton chuckles all these years later when so much work, much of it his own, has been done to change not just how we treat the disabled but how we see them.
Last week, Naughton visited the Mater Hospital again, this time through the shiny new accessible entrance at the Whitty Building on the North Circular Road. A lot has changed. At the launch of the HSE's exacting new guidelines on accessible health and social care services, he noted just how much.
Entire article:
Disability campaigner Martin Naughton sees dramatic change over 50 years of effort
http://tinyurl.com/ou8glr8
Assasha_feather taught me, there have always been social justice advocates. Martin Naughton was a "man of his time" as much as the hospital administrators who couldn't conceive of someone using a wheelchair outside the hospital. Dave Reynolds, Inclusion Daily's editor, casts his net very wide indeed. Sometimes the articles sampled don't represent an ideal perspective on disability rights. But always, they include the living experience of people with disabilities in the world, and that's always welcome in my in-box.
Samples from Inclusion Daily Express—disability rights news service © Copyright 2015 Inonit Publishing. Please do not reprint, post or forward without permission.
begin quote Inclusion Daily Express saves you time while keeping you up-to-date on what people with disabilities are facing, saying and doing. Each daily edition features six or seven important disability rights stories—many you cannot find anywhere else—along with links to dozens of other articles, press releases, opinion pieces and disability columns. quote ends
Inclusion Daily is well worth the annual cost of US$160. That might seem too much to pay, but you can specify ten email recipients for each subscription. If you're part of a working group, an agency, a school district, just one sub can keep everyone in the loop, you choose whether it's weekly or every weekday.
I've been able to keep up on disability-related news from all over. I find the info inspires me to action, provides examples, educates about other people working on "my" issues, and helps me know my place in the movement and the world.
You can try two weeks for free, and see if it's for you.
Here's a sample of what I found in the last two weeks, thanks to Inclusion Daily Express
Toddlers Or Ayatollahs? Subtitling Errors Can Make Live TV Unwatchable
(The Guardian)
January 30, 2015
LONDON, ENGLAND—[Excerpt] Deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers could be forgiven for being baffled after subtitling mistakes transformed toddlers into ayatollahs and confused sources with sauces.
The errors were highlighted in a report by communications watchdog Ofcom that said people relying on live subtitles had an "inferior" experience to other viewers.
Other examples of mistakes included the Star Wars character Princess Leia being called "Present Cesc lay ya" and lemon transcribed as "lepl on".
The report also quoted examples of what it called "serious recognition errors" including "they need a man" instead of "they need a mum" and "be given to ayatollahs" instead of "be given to our toddlers".
The issue was previously taken up by former home secretary David Blunkett who criticised subtitling standards and quoted an example from football commentary where Manchester United's Patrice Evra's challenge on an opponent was rendered as "the Arsenal player has been fouled by a zebra."
Entire article:
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/28/subtitling-errors-can-make-live-tv-unwatchable-says-ofcom
Inclusion Daily is text-only, but I can't resist this picture from the Guardian (described below)
image description: TV news screen grab with Arabic logo lower right, two figures in dark clothes standing on sand dune; captions read "unintended consequence feeds another.Isla miss her lover power"
So, I use captions. I loathe the state of live captioning, and I'm dismayed at the falling quality of offline captioning, as more services enter the market with seemingly no understanding of what good captioning means. From thousands of miles away, this article raises the question: Does the US's FCC* investigate caption quality? Do they supply a "how to do it" manual? Could I do something to help increase caption excellence?
*parallel agency to UK's Ofcom
Wheelchair Users Sue Major Hotel Companies For Inaccessible Transportation
(Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center)
January 23, 2015
DENVER, COLORADO-- [Excerpt] The Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center (CREEC), along with three individuals who use wheelchairs for mobility, today filed federal class action lawsuits against three major hotel owner/operators, RLJ Lodging Trust, Hospitality Properties Trust, and Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. Each lawsuit alleges that the hotel owner/operator discriminates against individuals with mobility disabilities in the provision of hotel shuttle transportation.
These three entities own or operate more than 500 hotels in the United States, including more than 50 in California.
Specifically, the cases challenge the hotels' consistent failure to provide accessible options when they choose to offer transportation services to guests, and charge that this failure violates the federal Americans with Disabilities Act and California state law.
"For those of us who use wheelchairs and other mobility devices, it is difficult enough to get around most cities when we travel," said Ruthee Goldkorn, a plaintiff in two of the cases who uses a wheelchair for mobility. "As it stands at these hotels, all other hotel guests can get shuttled around the city to events, the airport, and downtown attractions, but we just get left at the hotel. I joined this lawsuit to make hotel transportation services accessible for everyone."
Entire article:
Wheelchair Users Sue Major Hotel Companies for Inaccessible Transportation
http://creeclaw.org/hotel-transportation-cases-filed/
Now this is highly relevant to my SF fan interests. Most cons are held in hotels; every hotel shuttle I've seen can't carry a powerchair. Sharing this info with other fans enables them to better advocate.
Disability Campaigner Sees Dramatic Change Over 50 Years Of Effort
(Irish Times)
January 27, 2015
DUBLIN, IRELAND-- [Excerpt] Martin Naughton faced the precipice. Fourteen steep concrete steps outside the Mater Hospital in Dublin stood between him and his ill friend inside.
It was 1972 and few hospitals had special access areas for people with disabilities. He had to be hauled up the steps to get inside. After visiting his friend, he wheeled himself out the doors and a man helped to tilt his chair backwards and eased him carefully towards the edge. That's when it all went wrong.
"The guy that was holding me at the back slipped," he says. "I came down. Bump! Bump! Bump! And I could see stars!"
Naughton chuckles all these years later when so much work, much of it his own, has been done to change not just how we treat the disabled but how we see them.
Last week, Naughton visited the Mater Hospital again, this time through the shiny new accessible entrance at the Whitty Building on the North Circular Road. A lot has changed. At the launch of the HSE's exacting new guidelines on accessible health and social care services, he noted just how much.
Entire article:
Disability campaigner Martin Naughton sees dramatic change over 50 years of effort
http://tinyurl.com/ou8glr8
As
sasha_feather taught me, there have always been social justice advocates. Martin Naughton was a "man of his time" as much as the hospital administrators who couldn't conceive of someone using a wheelchair outside the hospital. Dave Reynolds, Inclusion Daily's editor, casts his net very wide indeed. Sometimes the articles sampled don't represent an ideal perspective on disability rights. But always, they include the living experience of people with disabilities in the world, and that's always welcome in my in-box.Samples from Inclusion Daily Express—disability rights news service © Copyright 2015 Inonit Publishing. Please do not reprint, post or forward without permission.