Ugly Elevator Incident Yields Advocacy Opportunity
Saturday, May 21st, 2022 02:26 pmFollowing ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brainwane's excellent advice, I've been on sabbatical from my years of advocacy re accessible environments.
BADD 2016: Battling Normate Space Invaders
Monday, May 2nd, 2016 08:43 pmETA: I wrote this for May 1st, Blogging Against Disablism Day. many more posts
http://blobolobolob.blogspot.co.uk/p/blogging-against-disablism-day-2016.html
Nineteen ninety-three: I got my first powerchair, my city began a growth spurt, and the ADA design guidelines had just been published. This should have meant smooth rolling: many new accessible buildings!
( Yet many accessible locations are destroyed by deliberate barriers )
http://blobolobolob.blogspot.co.uk/p/blogging-against-disablism-day-2016.html
Nineteen ninety-three: I got my first powerchair, my city began a growth spurt, and the ADA design guidelines had just been published. This should have meant smooth rolling: many new accessible buildings!
( Yet many accessible locations are destroyed by deliberate barriers )
This is the continual battle against the normate space invaders. This is why accessible design and construction isn't enough.
If you think this barrier wasn't really created on purpose, that it's just the thoughtlessness of the ill-informed, I know that's not the case. I've visited this particular shop to inform them they've recreated barriers unnecessarily, and asked them to stop destroying the built-in accessibility. Their response is Oh, don't worry, we'll be happy to help if you just ask.
Nondisabled people may wonder, so what's so hard about asking?
Great effort has been made to create accessible environments. Why should this thoughtless disablism require us to ask permission over and over? We are here; we are the public, as Dave Hingsburger put it so eloquently. When nondisabled people recolonize our spaces, we must regroup, react, and respond.
Four Things Make a Post
Saturday, June 15th, 2013 06:13 pmMore Boundaries & Wheelchairs
The awesome vibes from my last post made it all the way to Chicago. Captain Awkward's letter yesterday was I'm in a wheelchair and people are condescending as fuck. Tasty reading, and hundreds of non-hostile, yet non-submissive responses.
Th@ is wh@ ma@ters( wh@'s up? )
Locked Out: Investigating Societal Discrimination against People with Disabilities Due to Inaccessible Websites
( A clear, fun, and useful presentation on the basics of why we need accessible sites )
Cyncism is consent
( a thought for the day if you're a weary advocate )
The awesome vibes from my last post made it all the way to Chicago. Captain Awkward's letter yesterday was I'm in a wheelchair and people are condescending as fuck. Tasty reading, and hundreds of non-hostile, yet non-submissive responses.
Th@ is wh@ ma@ters( wh@'s up? )
Locked Out: Investigating Societal Discrimination against People with Disabilities Due to Inaccessible Websites
( A clear, fun, and useful presentation on the basics of why we need accessible sites )
Cyncism is consent
( a thought for the day if you're a weary advocate )
crawling back to life. also backstroking.
Monday, June 11th, 2012 07:29 pmWow I love swimming. ( splish splash )
( Jesse Walks! )
So Sherlock BBC fandom has eaten my brain. ( chomp chump DVD details )
( Jesse Walks! )
So Sherlock BBC fandom has eaten my brain. ( chomp chump DVD details )