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?...
Disabled Southerners are building new paths to grassroots power (wagingnonviolence.org)
Colorado disability rights advocates fight for accessibility. “We’re the canaries in the coal mine of health care.” (coloradosun.com)
How many in the U.S. are disabled? Proposed census changes would greatly decrease count (www.science.org)
web.archive.org link – excerpts follow....
The UK government is about to make some disabled benefits claimants even poorer (www.theguardian.com)
Cost of living payments for those receiving Pip have been quietly axed, forcing many to choose between charging their wheelchairs or staying warm...
A new accessibility architecture for modern free desktops – GNOME Accessibility (blogs.gnome.org)
A newmembeer of the GNOME accesibility team talks about current issues and plans
[UK] Protest against DWP proposals to tighten the WCA – 12 pm Monday 30 October (dpac.uk.net)
Time: 12pm noon...
Advocacy Town Hall - Radical Inclusion: Empowering Accessibility in Tech | LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com)
This Tuesday, 2023-10-24: Women Who Code Advocacy Town Hall moderated by AmyJune Hineline ( @volkswagenchick )...
Digital Accessibility Blogs and Newsletters (www.tpgi.com)
Shared by @onsman, a list of experts and organizations to follow for news and ideas on digital accessibility.
How Minnesota Is Making Maps Accessible (www.esri.com)
Employees of the state of Minnesota in the United States have created a “Maps Community of Practice” to advance the accessibility of digital and print maps....
Transit Month Event: Disability Access is for Everyone (sf.streetsblog.org)
Disabled People's Manifesto launched (www.inclusionlondon.org.uk)
Interesting news from the UK
Four disabled journalists on how news outlets can support staffers and audience members with disabilities (www.niemanlab.org)
Hi Everyone New Here
Hi everyone thanks so much for accepting me. My disabilities include fibromyalgia, ROP (I was born at 24 weeks gestation.) I’m also autistic and have hyperacusis. I’m hoping to contribute to what looks like a wonderful community....
Uber Eats will start accepting food stamps for grocery delivery in 2024 (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/8051439...
Marriage could mean losing life-saving benefits for people with disabilities. So they’re protesting. (19thnews.org)
Why Aren't Disabled Stories Included in Abortion Ban Conversations? (rewirenewsgroup.com)
I learned to love my disabled body – why can’t my non-disabled friends love theirs? (www.theguardian.com)
Disability - how's your week going?
imma feeling marginally sorry for myself as i got my covid and flu boosters this week and the extra work that makes for my body makes it grumpy. but still, am vaxxed so that’s good....
"Ableism and sexism, every day" - Lucy Webster on life as a disabled woman (www.youtube.com)
Prescriptions for fruits and vegetables can improve the health of people with diabetes and other ailments, new study finds (theconversation.com)
Toronto man wins disability accommodation fight against Air Canada (www.cbc.ca)
Staying resilient when gatekeepers refuse service
Been having a pretty rough time after a psychiatrist suddenly reversed course and refused to supply documentation I need for disability benefits. It definitely feels like a very personal instance of “you’re a useless mouth and should be dead, or at least out of the system where nobody has to think about you”....
Difficulty of busy Zoom chat for screen reader users (beehaw.org)
This week I logged on to a Zoom webinar that had chat enabled. The meeting had a large attendance. The chat quickly filled up with dozens of people sharing their city or country, and later commenting on technical problems....
