#Disabled

#AccessibleAdvent Day 7! We all live online these days, so it’s extra-important to ensure that your online platform/presence is accessible. Does your website meet access guidelines? If not, what can
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#AdviceToProfessors As a disabled student, the first thing I do when we get the syllabus is flip to the attendance policy and let me explain in detail why this one
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I honestly hate this weird anti-ablism movement that glorifies disabilities instead of seeing them properly as bad things. Like, I get that it's unkind to look down on someone for
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ok the Tories need to stop weaponising wellbeing now! It is *not* their place to decide what's good for people's mental health & tbh they don't have a very good
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Sharing threads this week from our medical complexity study.Having a disabled child should not be a pathway to poverty, but too often it is. Our survey showed that 49% of
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Hey UI Designers and UX Designers, having trouble getting tech support for a feature to improve accessibility?Here are some quick wins: - Consider using different shapes alongside color to denote
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Montreal and Toronto both have municipal snow removal for their sidewalks. The only reason we're even debating whether it's a good idea for MPLS is because Americans have been so
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recently saw a thread (i will link below) that some nonbinary folk dont like to be referred to as enbies as it feels othering and dehumanizing which is so valid!
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When I asked my psychology of education teacher why we were learning about these conditions in a way that centers teachers—who are assumed NT—and those who are “disrupted” rather than
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I would like to believe that the next generation of filmmakers are gonna help make the industry more diverse and progressive, but being in film school and seeing how me
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The University of Colorado - Colorado Springs, or @UCCS, is hiring a new professor of special education. They do not want any disabled people applying for this job. "Must lift
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Everytime someone in the EU shares their salaries as a programmer someone always compares it to US salaries. Please stop. It's not even the same system It assumed we1:all wanna
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I've found the debate about special needs schools reopening or not & students with SENs to be very hard for me. I want to say why now. I need to
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BRACE FOR CLICHE POSITIVITYDon't apologize for enjoying things. If you love something no matter how superfluous or stupid it may seem you should pour your heart and soul into it.
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In Azerbaijani we don't say "you are not important person", instead we say "adın it dəftərində yoxdur"; which literally means "your name isn't on the dogs' notebook". This saying comes
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Here's what it feels like, okay. Let me explain the normate. The normate is that Perfect Body, Perfect Look, Perfect Presentation everyone wants to have. And I do mean everyone
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