We love speaking to Councillors of all parties about making safe, cheap & easy travel a choice for everyone in #Exeter. Campaign reps were delighted to join Cllrs Neil & Tony Stevens for a chat, broadcast online. 🧵 #activetravel #cycling #walking #disabledaccess 1/

RE: https://aus.social/@dgar/115605032378865761

I explain why AltText is important. They learn and do. They're now a 12.

#alttext #AltText4You #alttextyay #alttextforall #disabled #disabledlivesmatter #DisabledVoices #disabledaccess #disabilityrights

Why do we even have to fight for accessibility?

We shouldn't have to fight for something as basic as being able to access the things we need.
Which (if you think about it) is pretty much everything. For the blind (like myself) we have to fight for digital accessibility. We continue to fight for accessible websites. Accessible games. Accessible streets. Accessible houses. To simply have accessible lives.
Wheel chair users have constantly to fight also.
They (you) have to fight just to have ramps in places you need to be able to access. So that you don't have to wheel yourselves up flights of stairs. You constantly have to ask the question "Is where I am going accessible?"
"Can a wheel chair user navigate through my destination?"
"Will I be able to get my dream job despite not having eye sight?"
And the thing that all disabled people have to put up with, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, is the undignifying patronising debilitating thing we know of as, Ableism.
And we have grown use to this.
We rave about it. Rant about it. Vent, rage and denounce it. But far too often, our actions extend only to writing a skaving tweet on Twitter.
An angry Facebook post.
Composing a frustrated thread on Threads.
It is not typing that will stop this.
The pressing of keys on a keyboard does get your thoughts out there, but beyond that does very little.
After seeing dozens of posts like yours, the people in charge simply tune out.
They seas to listen. They close their ears. And Nothing my disabled friends, changes for us at all.
The wheel chair user still has to worry about whether they will be able to wheel themselves into their workplace.
The blind person still has to plead with major companies, to make their apps accessible.
So that all can use them. Regardless of our ability to see. Our ability to move. Our ability to hear. Nothing changes. And still, we remain silent. Silent. Submissive. Subservient to the ways which we all in one way or another regardless of our disability hate, find undignifying or damn right debilitating.
We live this (all of us) every day. Or at least, every week.
We are told we can't climb stairs. That we can't be as independent as the rest of society. That we will always need help. That we will always need assistance.
Some of us might. And indeed some of us will, but let us be the ones to ask for it. Not have another person decide for us.
Act on our behalf, simply because our sight, our mobility, our focus our minds are not as functional, easy or able as the sight, minds movement and focus of the rest of society.
We the disabled need to remember, that we don't need to lean on our non-disabled peers like crutches.
We the disabled need to remember, that we are (when it comes down to it) just as capable as everyone else.
We may have to do things differently.
The blind among our number may need to read things in braille or listen to them.
Our wheel chair bound fellow disabled people may need to wheel themselves around or perhaps may not be able to walk as far as the non-disabled people in our society. But that does not make us less able. That does not make us less useful. That does not make us worthless.
No human being is worthless. Every human being is equal.
But my friends, we are only able when we choose to be.
Things will only change if we decide to make them do so. And things will most certainly not change, if we whisper our grievances.
Let us shout them to the world.
Let us announce them to the globe.
Let us denounce the barriers that stand in our way.
And in the name of god, let us not write our frustrations, but act on them.
There is no reason on Earth, why your workplace couldn't have a ramp for your wheel chair.
There is no reason in the universe, that canes are not accessible to all blind people.
There is absolutely no reason in the cosmos, that this world of ours cannot accommodate the millions of us disabled people who live within it.
We may be labeled difficult for refusing to tolerate this.
We may be called unreasonable, for supposedly expecting "to much" from the people in charge.
But if accessibility. If equality. If basic human decency is too much to ask, then this world needs to take a long hard look at itself.
We the disabled may be a minority, but we are not going away.
There may be more non-disabled people on this planet than disabled people, but that does not mean that we do not deserve to be accommodated, included and valued just like the rest of our fellow human beings.
Let we the disabled be no longer an after thought, but instead a before thought.

Let accessibility not be a rarity, but instead normality.
And let inclusion not be unusual, but as normal as the presence of people.
As the presence of water.
As the presence, of the very Earth we stand on.
Accessibility isn't just generosity, it is basic decency. Because if we the disabled cannot access our world, then how in god's name can we live and flourish within it? The lives of our non-disabled friends are also hard, but at least they are able to access pretty much the whole of this world.
So should they be able to access and so enjoy our world, so too should we. Blind or immobile. Partially sighted or autistic or less able to walk, this is our world too. And so we too, deserve to be able to access it.
#Accessibility #Disabled #Inclusion #Blind #Disability #Equality #DisabledAccess #Accessibilityforall #Accessforall #Accessnow #Decency #Ableism

South Korea’s finance ministry will codify disabled access rights in public procurement, aiming to boost social value and support disadvantaged enterprises in a 225 trillion won market.
#YonhapInfomax #PublicProcurement #DisabledAccess #MinistryOfEconomyAndFinance #SocialValue #225TrillionWon #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=86758

Just saw a post on another platform about the proposed #pedestrianisation of #London’s Oxford St and was blown away by the venom and cynicism.

It seems the combination of #sustainability, improved #AirQuality and #DisabledAccess are beyond the wit of humanity and the enemy of business.

How do European cities successfully manage pedestrianisation?

https://sustainabilitymag.com/news/how-is-sadiq-khan-cutting-oxford-street-congestion

Reposted from @cityofthousandoaks: Join us for another Community Conversation about the future of Downtown Thousand Oaks this Wednesday evening! This virtual session will cover the various uses of a flexible downtown and the creation of accessible spaces for all. Register now at https://toaks.gov/index.php?section=calendar&evtid=198.

#accessibility #disabledaccess #AccessForAll #thousandoaks #tocc

Discover this month's top-notch reviews from our amazing volunteers and find festive outing inspiration! 🌟

#FestiveFun #DisabledAccess

https://www.euansguide.com/news/december-review-roundup/

The #BelfryTheatre in #FernwoodSquare has 2 different #accessible entryways. The ground level accessible entry is to access the separate workshop space. The accessible ramp is by the refuse/recycle/compost bins & that entry leads to the theatre space, upstairs.

Please see their website on more info about accessibility for #PeopleWithDisabilities - they do their best to be inclusive & accessible for all:

https://www.belfry.bc.ca/accessibility/

#Lekwungen #YYJ #VictoriaBC #AccessibilityBC #DisabledAccess #AccessibilityForAll #AccessibilityForInclusiveness #YYJAccessibility #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #AccessibleTheatres #AccessibleVenues #BCAssessibility

#sicilia #sicily #happyisland #isolafelice
#Catania #ParcoAvventura #Inclusivo #LaPlaia #Tourability #SenzaBarriere #TurismoInclusivo #AvventuraAccessibile #CataniaAccessibile #SiciliaAccessibile #AvventurePerTutti #AccessiblePark #InclusivityMatters #DisabledAccess #VisitCatania #InclusivePlayground #OutdoorActivities #BarrierFree

Catania, nuovo parco avventura inclusivo alla Plaia https://www.vocidicitta.it/citta/catania/catania-nuovo-parco-avventura-inclusivo-alla-plaia-ad-opera-di-tourability/

Disabled people don't all have the same needs but we're treated like we do
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/mindandbody/disabled-people-don-t-all-have-the-same-needs-but-we-re-treated-like-we-do/ar-BB1kCcin?pc=ASTS&ei=43

#Ableism
#Disabilities
#Disabled
#Discrimination
#HierarchyOfDisability
#DisabilityAccess
#DisabledAccess
#EqualityAct2010
#HiddenDisabilities
#TopTrumps
#DisabilityTopTrumps

I went to the IMAX cinema in Cheltenham last night. It’s a nice, spacious building but has a few issues for people in wheelchairs, like myself.

#IMAX #cinema #wheelchair #DisabledAccess

After returning from holiday #disabled son-in-law in Spain France Holland UK, I can confirm #TrainTravel experience as follows:

Spain - intercity experience was positive. Easy train access. Roomy seats. Luggage space for #wheelchair
UK - sublime or ridiculous depending on region..
France - Space for wheelchair was an issue on budget #OUIGO trains. They feel more cramped and not as easily accessible. Lots of steps in the train design 👎🏻
Netherlands - #Thalys trains were good and fewer seats in the carriages, so more luggage/ wheelchair space. Nice 🙂

#trainsineurope #disabledaccess #disabilityinclusion

If you're looking for affordable and easy-to-execute strategies for making your exhibitions more accessible to disabled visitors.

https://www.artworkarchive.com/blog/equitable-exhibits-make-your-arts-programming-more-accessible-to-people-with-disabilities #museums
#exhibitions
#disabledaccess