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Dan Phiffer
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Oh my stars, we've lost a legend. Rest in power, Alice Wong.
via @thrasherxy.bsky.social: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
Tod Robbins
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Really great podcast episode from East Bay Yesterday on the disability rights movement in Berkeley, CA in the 1960s / civil rights era. Particularly an interview with an author of a biography on Ed Roberts, a prominent disability rights activist who became disabled from Polio as a teenager.
Really great podcast episode from East Bay Yesterday on the disability rights movement in Berkeley, CA in the 1960s / civil rights era. Particularly an interview with an author of a biography on Ed Roberts, a prominent disability rights activist who became disabled from Polio as a teenager.
Oh my stars, we've lost a legend. Rest in power, Alice Wong.
via @thrasherxy.bsky.social: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
alcinnz
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I just published a new piece: “Why Can’t Everything Be Accessible?”
Accessibility isn’t complicated—it’s ignored. We’ve failed to teach, enforce, and value inclusion in tech.
Developers, educators, governments, and companies all have a role to play.
Read and share if you believe accessibility should be for everyone:
https://taylorarndt.substack.com/p/why-cant-everything-be-accessible
#Accessibility #Inclusion #A11y #DigitalAccessibility #DisabilityRights #TechForGood #AI #InclusiveDesign
I just published a new piece: “Why Can’t Everything Be Accessible?”
Accessibility isn’t complicated—it’s ignored. We’ve failed to teach, enforce, and value inclusion in tech.
Developers, educators, governments, and companies all have a role to play.
Read and share if you believe accessibility should be for everyone:
https://taylorarndt.substack.com/p/why-cant-everything-be-accessible
#Accessibility #Inclusion #A11y #DigitalAccessibility #DisabilityRights #TechForGood #AI #InclusiveDesign
And So It Begins is one of the new films in our Resource Library in 2025!
This award-winning documentary is set amidst the Filipino elections of 2022. It follows Leni Robredo's 2022 presidential campaign and the quirky people’s movement that rises to defend the Philippines against deepening threats to truth and democracy in a collective act of joy as a form of resistance.
If you are in the US, And So It Begins is available on PBS!
https://journeysinfilm.org/film/and-so-it-begins/
#Activism #Democracy #Philippines #GlobalEducation #History #Protest
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution shares with insight, humor, and joy the experiences of a group of disabled teenagers at a summer camp for kids with disabilities and their journey to adulthood and activism that shaped disability rights.
The film includes footage of historic protests for disability rights that are important viewing for anyone who cares about effective activism!
https://journeysinfilm.org/film/crip-camp/
#Activism #Democracy #History #Protest #DisabilityRights #DisabiilityPride #DisabilityJustice #DisabilityHistory #Disability
Canada is on the verge of adopting a national standard requiring N95s in healthcare—and your voice can help make it happen.
This proposed CSA standard would:
- Require N95s (or equally protective alternatives) for all healthcare workers, patients, and visitors.
- Protect the most vulnerable.
- Set a historic global precedent for clean air in healthcare.
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The CSA is accepting public comments until August 19. Submitting your comment takes just a few minutes and could make a global impact.
Submit your comment here: https://publicreview.csa.ca/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2fHome%2fView%2f2256677
#PublicHealth#CSA#CleanAir#MaskUp#COVID19#COVID#COVID_19#CommunityHealth#DisabilityRights#LongCOVID
Alex Akselrod
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From the Disability Visibility Project:
"Immigrant Rights Are Disability Rights"
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/07/13/immigrant-rights-are-disability-rights/
"… a true commitment to justice for disabled people must recognize that many undocumented immigrants are themselves disabled and deserving of basic rights, not total erasure from the disability rights discourse."
#USPol#Disability#DisabilityRights#Ableism#Immigration #HumanRights
From the Disability Visibility Project:
"Immigrant Rights Are Disability Rights"
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/07/13/immigrant-rights-are-disability-rights/
"… a true commitment to justice for disabled people must recognize that many undocumented immigrants are themselves disabled and deserving of basic rights, not total erasure from the disability rights discourse."
#USPol#Disability#DisabilityRights#Ableism#Immigration #HumanRights
GrapheneOS: Where Licenses Matter More Than People
GrapheneOS could have shipped real accessibility support. They had a screen reader. They had a libre speech engine — one they requested a feature from. They got that feature.
And then they said no.
Because the license was GPLv3.
They’ll ship sandboxed Google Play Services.
They’ll let you install GPLv3 software from their app store.
But a working screen reader for blind users?
Blocked. On principle.
This isn’t a technical limitation.
This is not a matter of priorities.
This is cruelty by ideology — and they’re proud of it.
So here it is. My full public dissection of the excuses, the hypocrisy, and the sheer contempt they’ve shown to the people who need privacy and security most: the disabled.
They chose licensing purity over basic humanity.
I chose to write this.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/grapheneos-where-licenses-matter-more-than-people/
#GrapheneOS#Accessibility #FOSS#Blind#DisabilityTech#Inclusion#GPLv3 #espeak #a11y#Security#FreeSoftware#DisabilityRights#Android#Rant#TechShame
update: If you are using this post as some kind of call-to-action to harass and attack the GOS developers, please don't.
That damages everyone. You, them, and myself. It's not helpful.
"Studies have shown that children begin to identify and punish autistic traits from a young age. Human beings reinforce social norms by hurting people who break them."
If you want to understand why autism is a disability and not just a quirk or a difference, reread this quote until the words find a permanent home in your brain.
"Human beings reinforce social norms by hurting people who break them."
"Human beings reinforce social norms by hurting people who break them."
"Human beings reinforce social norms by hurting people who break them."
This happens every. Single. Day.
https://observer.co.uk/news/first-person/article/laurie-penny-autism
#ActuallyAutistic
#Disability
#DisabilityRights
@actuallyautistic
