disability

At this student encampment, Deaf protesters built a model for accessibility (19thnews.org)

This handheld console for disabled gamers has modular control pods for better ergonomics - Yanko Design (www.yankodesign.com)

After private equity firms gobbled up wheelchair makers, users pay the price in long repair times (www.statnews.com)

Disability: Doctor assumed woman using wheelchair did not have sex - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)

I have mixed feelings about this, can anyone comment?

Description: a toilet door with a multigender symbol and a disabled symbol. Text below the symbols reads “Inclusive| Ira tāngata katoa”....

The sign language interpreter changing the way we listen to music (www.huckmag.com)

Amber Galloway doesn’t just do sign language to music – she uses American Sign Language (ASL) and her body, face and vibes to channel the live experience and energy to deaf and hard-of-hearing fans.

Screen Reader User Survey (webaim.org)

If you're wanting to build something accessible but not sure which tools / software to test it with, this is what you need to know: most used screen readers, web browser usage, braille usage, and more!

Thoughts on an app for tracking spoons?

A while back I was in a business class, and I had this thought, that I really wish there was a way for me to log how many mental spoons* (how much mental energy) it takes to do a task. Something like a period tracker app, or a habit tracker, that could allow me to enter some data, and when it had enough it would be able to...

Wheelchairs: Which have you tried? Which are the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly?

A relative wants to buy a wheelchair and I can tell there a lot to consider, but I’m having a hard time finding useful reviews of any model’s actual usability, so I thought it’d be nice to get a discussion going on which chairs people loved, hated, or would otherwise like to rate. Is there something that is really great or...

[from 2020] It’s Time To Listen To Black Disabled People (www.essence.com)

Echo: A Blind Teacher Using Echolocation to Navigate the World [17:17] (youtu.be)

Do you have any accessility tips / criticism of my web app?

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How Ruben Reuter challenges disability prejudice in the media industry (www.journalism.co.uk)

'There is still work to be done': Voters with disabilities face unaddressed barriers to the ballot (19thnews.org)

it is really hard

Everytime I leave the house to do anything, I either...

Disability advocates breathe a sigh of relief at Supreme Court’s Acheson decision (19thnews.org)

Literary Image Description Best Practices Guide - APLN (apln.ca)

How do you write alternate text for a work with visual artistic merit?...

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