#PeopleWithDisabilities are integral parts of our world & community, yet they often face #inaccessible or #unwelcoming spaces online. The word #disability itself is a limiting term, as it refers to an immense spectrum of experiences. #Disabilities can affect a person’s auditory, cognitive, neurological, linguistic, visual, emotional or physical abilities moving through the world, both online & offline.
Throughout their time at the workshop, millions of #FabricScraps have gotten another chance at a new life as parts of #artworks, tote bags, shirts & more. These products were created by #VụnArt’s nearly 40 #artisans, all living with different forms of #disabilities. The workers come from all walks of life, but, under the roof of Vụn Art, have come together to make a living from their own labor & creativity, like pieces of a tapestry existing to make life more enjoyable.
...we’ve made strides as a society to counter various forms of injustice, we still have a long way to go when it comes to challenging #stereotypes surrounding those with #SpecialNeeds & #disabilities. #Ableism is still an under-discussed topic & that needs to change.
That’s why we’re so excited to see this woman with #DownSyndrome run her own #CookieBusiness & take down naysayers who believe that a person should be treated as less than because of their disabilities.
Monday May 20 marks 100 days to go until the start of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, where 4,400 athletes from all over the world will be taking part. It also marks the start of a new advertising campaign released by the Olympic committee in a bid to to boost slow sales. Vedika Bahl reports. #Olympics#Paralympics#Paris #Disabilities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm7zbspN_KE
Born without front legs, Winnie has become an #inspirational figure at Charlotte’s Freedom #Farm, defying expectations by living life to the fullest and racking up a social media audience of more than 100,000 followers on Instagram.
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD). Today, I want you to ask yourself, then act, before you speak. Do you have an app you're maintaining? Look at some #accessibility resources for the framework you use for the user interface. Do you know if it's accessible or not? If it's not accessible, are you doing anything about it? Do you tell disabled visitors to your app/site that it's not accessible, and give them a timeframe, if any, when it will be? Do you have a website? If so, do you know if it's accessible or not? Are you an artist of any kind? Is your media accessible? Are you a writer? If so, are the images in your book described with #AltText?
If you're a part of a company that has anything to do with accessibility, including proudly posting about it, do you have any disabled employees? If so, do you show them that they're appreciated? If not, why don't you have any? If you create art about people with disabilities, do you have disabled people take a look at it before you share it? If you write books that have images in them, have any disabled people checked to make sure the Alt-text makes sense, and that the book is accessible otherwise? If not, why not? And when you get disabled people to check out apps, books, sites for your professional needs, do you pay them for it?
Please do remember us on every other day of the year, but particularly today, please remember: nothing about us without us.
Wow, apparently #covid can not only cause sudden hearing loss, but also sudden vision loss. This disease truly is like a wheel of prizes, but you win #disabilities.
When bus driver Hue Sze Wei found out that service 173 that he operates will have a #bus featuring #artwork by #students with #IntellectualDisabilities, the 41-year-old was happy to hop on board with the initiative.
He is no stranger to the invasive stares & rude remarks that members of public sometimes have for those with intellectual #disabilities, as he has a son who attended a kindergarten for autistic children.
Please, #bookstodon and everyone else , recommend your very favorite books and other #information to me. I'll read anything, audio or ebook or maybe even paper #book, #website or recurring graphics or whatever.
Feed me.
Those eligible would have to pre-register at counters in Pengkalan Raja Tun Uda on the island or Pangkalan Sultan Abdul Halim on the mainland with their #MyKad and OKU cards issued by the #SocialWelfare Department
"Hop", a half-hour kids show focused on disabilities is coming to HBO Max in April. A character named Filipa is a "fiercely intelligent squirrel" and is voiced by Charlotte Walker who is autistic.
Rather than helping wheelchair user Ryoko Nakajima, staff at one Aeon Cinema in Japan expressed reluctance, citing time constraints, and suggested she consider watching movies elsewhere in the future. As a regular at the cinema, Nakajima couldn’t shake her confusion.