#disabilityjustice — Public Fediverse posts

I stand in my kitchen wanting to use an appliance I have already paid for. Its smooth touchscreen gives me no tactile information. I use a camera app to find the controls, place markers where I think buttons may appear, and hope the layout has not changed. One accidental tap can take me somewhere I cannot identify or exit without sighted help. A task that should take moments becomes a process requiring concentration, technology, and luck.

Many disabled people know this experience. We become skilled at adapting. We label buttons, memorise layouts, ask friends or family to help with setup, search for accessible workarounds, and learn to make do with only part of what a product offers. Those strategies can be useful, and they can protect our independence in the moment.

Yet the effort is rarely recognised as work. It takes time, money, energy, confidence, and sometimes privacy. Products then appear “accessible” because a disabled person has managed to force a way through, even where the design itself has excluded us from using the product fully and reliably.

The barriers differ across disability experiences. A device that communicates only through sound can leave Deaf and hard of hearing users without vital information. Controls requiring fine precision, force, or repeated physical effort can be inaccessible for people living with pain, fatigue, mobility limitations, or reduced dexterity. Busy, inflexible interfaces can overwhelm or exclude people with cognitive disabilities and neurodivergent people. Voice assistants cannot serve everyone, especially people whose speech is not reliably recognised.

Manufacturers have choices. A touchscreen appliance can include tactile controls and meaningful feedback. Digital instructions can be made accessible. Settings can be simplified and personalised. Disabled people can be included while products are being researched, designed, tested, and supported. These approaches recognise that disabled people are customers, experts in our own access needs, and members of every household.

Sharing adaptations with each other remains important because people need solutions today. We also need to expect more from society, from businesses, and from the institutions responsible for consumer access. When access barriers are treated as individual problems for disabled people to solve, exclusion becomes routine. Naming the barrier, reporting it, supporting disability led advocacy, and insisting on inclusive design can help shift that expectation.

#AccessibleDesign #DisabilityJustice #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

I stand in my kitchen wanting to use an appliance I have already paid for. Its smooth touchscreen gives me no tactile information. I use a camera app to find the controls, place markers where I think buttons may appear, and hope the layout has not changed. One accidental tap can take me somewhere I cannot identify or exit without sighted help. A task that should take moments becomes a process requiring concentration, technology, and luck.

Many disabled people know this experience. We become skilled at adapting. We label buttons, memorise layouts, ask friends or family to help with setup, search for accessible workarounds, and learn to make do with only part of what a product offers. Those strategies can be useful, and they can protect our independence in the moment.

Yet the effort is rarely recognised as work. It takes time, money, energy, confidence, and sometimes privacy. Products then appear “accessible” because a disabled person has managed to force a way through, even where the design itself has excluded us from using the product fully and reliably.

The barriers differ across disability experiences. A device that communicates only through sound can leave Deaf and hard of hearing users without vital information. Controls requiring fine precision, force, or repeated physical effort can be inaccessible for people living with pain, fatigue, mobility limitations, or reduced dexterity. Busy, inflexible interfaces can overwhelm or exclude people with cognitive disabilities and neurodivergent people. Voice assistants cannot serve everyone, especially people whose speech is not reliably recognised.

Manufacturers have choices. A touchscreen appliance can include tactile controls and meaningful feedback. Digital instructions can be made accessible. Settings can be simplified and personalised. Disabled people can be included while products are being researched, designed, tested, and supported. These approaches recognise that disabled people are customers, experts in our own access needs, and members of every household.

Sharing adaptations with each other remains important because people need solutions today. We also need to expect more from society, from businesses, and from the institutions responsible for consumer access. When access barriers are treated as individual problems for disabled people to solve, exclusion becomes routine. Naming the barrier, reporting it, supporting disability led advocacy, and insisting on inclusive design can help shift that expectation.

#AccessibleDesign #DisabilityJustice #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

I stand in my kitchen wanting to use an appliance I have already paid for. Its smooth touchscreen gives me no tactile information. I use a camera app to find the controls, place markers where I think buttons may appear, and hope the layout has not changed. One accidental tap can take me somewhere I cannot identify or exit without sighted help. A task that should take moments becomes a process requiring concentration, technology, and luck.

Many disabled people know this experience. We become skilled at adapting. We label buttons, memorise layouts, ask friends or family to help with setup, search for accessible workarounds, and learn to make do with only part of what a product offers. Those strategies can be useful, and they can protect our independence in the moment.

Yet the effort is rarely recognised as work. It takes time, money, energy, confidence, and sometimes privacy. Products then appear “accessible” because a disabled person has managed to force a way through, even where the design itself has excluded us from using the product fully and reliably.

The barriers differ across disability experiences. A device that communicates only through sound can leave Deaf and hard of hearing users without vital information. Controls requiring fine precision, force, or repeated physical effort can be inaccessible for people living with pain, fatigue, mobility limitations, or reduced dexterity. Busy, inflexible interfaces can overwhelm or exclude people with cognitive disabilities and neurodivergent people. Voice assistants cannot serve everyone, especially people whose speech is not reliably recognised.

Manufacturers have choices. A touchscreen appliance can include tactile controls and meaningful feedback. Digital instructions can be made accessible. Settings can be simplified and personalised. Disabled people can be included while products are being researched, designed, tested, and supported. These approaches recognise that disabled people are customers, experts in our own access needs, and members of every household.

Sharing adaptations with each other remains important because people need solutions today. We also need to expect more from society, from businesses, and from the institutions responsible for consumer access. When access barriers are treated as individual problems for disabled people to solve, exclusion becomes routine. Naming the barrier, reporting it, supporting disability led advocacy, and insisting on inclusive design can help shift that expectation.

#AccessibleDesign #DisabilityJustice #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

I stand in my kitchen wanting to use an appliance I have already paid for. Its smooth touchscreen gives me no tactile information. I use a camera app to find the controls, place markers where I think buttons may appear, and hope the layout has not changed. One accidental tap can take me somewhere I cannot identify or exit without sighted help. A task that should take moments becomes a process requiring concentration, technology, and luck.

Many disabled people know this experience. We become skilled at adapting. We label buttons, memorise layouts, ask friends or family to help with setup, search for accessible workarounds, and learn to make do with only part of what a product offers. Those strategies can be useful, and they can protect our independence in the moment.

Yet the effort is rarely recognised as work. It takes time, money, energy, confidence, and sometimes privacy. Products then appear “accessible” because a disabled person has managed to force a way through, even where the design itself has excluded us from using the product fully and reliably.

The barriers differ across disability experiences. A device that communicates only through sound can leave Deaf and hard of hearing users without vital information. Controls requiring fine precision, force, or repeated physical effort can be inaccessible for people living with pain, fatigue, mobility limitations, or reduced dexterity. Busy, inflexible interfaces can overwhelm or exclude people with cognitive disabilities and neurodivergent people. Voice assistants cannot serve everyone, especially people whose speech is not reliably recognised.

Manufacturers have choices. A touchscreen appliance can include tactile controls and meaningful feedback. Digital instructions can be made accessible. Settings can be simplified and personalised. Disabled people can be included while products are being researched, designed, tested, and supported. These approaches recognise that disabled people are customers, experts in our own access needs, and members of every household.

Sharing adaptations with each other remains important because people need solutions today. We also need to expect more from society, from businesses, and from the institutions responsible for consumer access. When access barriers are treated as individual problems for disabled people to solve, exclusion becomes routine. Naming the barrier, reporting it, supporting disability led advocacy, and insisting on inclusive design can help shift that expectation.

#AccessibleDesign #DisabilityJustice #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

I stand in my kitchen wanting to use an appliance I have already paid for. Its smooth touchscreen gives me no tactile information. I use a camera app to find the controls, place markers where I think buttons may appear, and hope the layout has not changed. One accidental tap can take me somewhere I cannot identify or exit without sighted help. A task that should take moments becomes a process requiring concentration, technology, and luck.

Many disabled people know this experience. We become skilled at adapting. We label buttons, memorise layouts, ask friends or family to help with setup, search for accessible workarounds, and learn to make do with only part of what a product offers. Those strategies can be useful, and they can protect our independence in the moment.

Yet the effort is rarely recognised as work. It takes time, money, energy, confidence, and sometimes privacy. Products then appear “accessible” because a disabled person has managed to force a way through, even where the design itself has excluded us from using the product fully and reliably.

The barriers differ across disability experiences. A device that communicates only through sound can leave Deaf and hard of hearing users without vital information. Controls requiring fine precision, force, or repeated physical effort can be inaccessible for people living with pain, fatigue, mobility limitations, or reduced dexterity. Busy, inflexible interfaces can overwhelm or exclude people with cognitive disabilities and neurodivergent people. Voice assistants cannot serve everyone, especially people whose speech is not reliably recognised.

Manufacturers have choices. A touchscreen appliance can include tactile controls and meaningful feedback. Digital instructions can be made accessible. Settings can be simplified and personalised. Disabled people can be included while products are being researched, designed, tested, and supported. These approaches recognise that disabled people are customers, experts in our own access needs, and members of every household.

Sharing adaptations with each other remains important because people need solutions today. We also need to expect more from society, from businesses, and from the institutions responsible for consumer access. When access barriers are treated as individual problems for disabled people to solve, exclusion becomes routine. Naming the barrier, reporting it, supporting disability led advocacy, and insisting on inclusive design can help shift that expectation.

#AccessibleDesign #DisabilityJustice #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

Latest update on GOAT Space! https://www.patreon.com/GOATspace/posts/mid-july-hijinks-164489893 #Makerspaces #Oakland #wheelchairs #DisabilityJustice

GOAT Space is OPEN!

10-4 today,! DM me, ring the doorbell, etc.
Doorbell is on the gate on 10th Street in Oakland, behind the Bookmark Bookstore at 10th and Broadway.
https://www.openassistivetech.org/wheelchair-cushion-giveaway/

#GOATspace #OpenAssistiveTech #DisabilityJustice #wheelchairs #Oakland

Tune-Up Tuesday, tomorrow June 2 at the Disability Cultural Center in SF! 1:30-4:30pm, 165 Grove St. (Civic Center). Bring your wheelchair, rollator, or other mobility gear for a free inspection and maintenance (and a free toolkit!) #DisabilityJustice #SanFrancisco #wheelchairs #accessibility

https://disabilityculturalcenter.org/event/tune-up-tuesday-june-2026/

„Lifestyle-Teilzeit“ kling wie eine entspannte Wahl zwischen Yoga-Kurs und Cappuccino. ☕️✨

In einer Gesellschaft, die den Wert eines Menschen allein an seiner Produktivität misst, ist Teilzeit oft kein Luxus, sondern eine Notwendigkeit.

#LifestyleTeilzeit #CDU #Lifestyle #Teilzeit #Vollzeit #Arbeitsrecht #Ableismus #CripTime #IntersektionalerFeminismus #Feminism #CareArbeit #Behindertenpolitik #Behinderung #Disability #Inkluencer #AbleismIsTrash #Inklusion #Arbeit #DisabilityJustice

Wenn eine ehemalige Ministerin in einer großen Zeitung schreibt: „Was wir uns künftig nicht mehr leisten können“ und dieses „Was“ sind Menschen mit Behinderung, dann ist das kein Ausrutscher, sondern ein Statement.⬇️

#Ableismus #Ableism #Inklusion #Inkluencer #Behinderung #Sozialpolitik #Disability #Menschenrechte #DisabilityJustice #Solidarität #Vielfalt #Feminismus #Medienkritik #Diskursverschiebung #Rechtsruck #Sozialabbau #Neoliberalismus

Heute ist der Internationale Tag der Menschen mit Behinderung und ich denke an mein jüngeres Ich. An einen jungen Menschen, dem niemand zutraute, jemals sichtbar zu sein. Der ohne Vorbilder aufwuchs, in einer Welt, die behinderte Leben klein hält.⬇️

#InternationalerTagDerMenschenMitBehinderung #Behinderung #Inklusion #Inkluencer #Disability #FaceSMA #DisabilityJustice #DisabledAndProud #BarrierefreiheitJetzt #CripPride #DisabledVoices #HumanRights #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #DisabilityPower

Die Bundesregierung plant ernsthaft, psychisch erkrankte Menschen zu Sonderkontrollen ins Jobcenter zu zwingen, um zu prüfen, ob sie "wirklich" krank sind. Das ist kein Sozialstaat.⬇️

#Ableismus #AbleismusTötet #Ableism #Saneismus #Saneism #PsychischeGesundheit #Inklusion #Inkluencer #Behinderung #Bürgergeld #Sozialpolitik #Klassismus #Menschenrechte #DisabilityJustice #MentalHealthIsHealth #MentalIllness #MentalHealth #Solidarität #StopTheStigma

Ein Fachanwalt für Arbeitsrecht sagt offen, er wolle gerade einen schwerbehinderten Betriebsrat rausbekommen und sei „auf einem guten Weg“. Dieser Mann ist nicht irgendwer: Alexander Birkhahn ist Vorstandsvorsitzender der Lebenshilfe Koblenz. ⬇️

#Ableismus #Klassismus #Arbeitsrecht #Inklusion #Inkluencer #Solidarität #Betriebsrat #Barrierefreiheit #DisabilityJustice #Behindertenrechte #Behinderung #Disability #DisabilityAwareness #Gewerkschaft #Antikapitalismus #Menschenrechte

Ein Mindestlohn zerstört also segensreiche Arbeit?

Was wirklich zerstört wird, ist die Würde der betroffenen Menschen. 320.000 Menschen schuften in deutschen Werkstätten für unter 2 Euro pro Stunde. Ohne Arbeitnehmendenrechte, ohne Wahl, ohne Perspektive auf einem Job im regulären Arbeitsmarkt.⬇️

#Inklusion #Inkluencer #Gleichberechtigung #Ableismus #Ableism #Behinderung #Disability #DisabilityAwareness #Mindestlohn #DisabilityJustice #GleichesRechtFürAlle

Wow! We just cannot express how grateful we are to everybody at @lucyparsonscent for organizing #LiberationSoup. This was an incredibly well-organized pamphlet and event that not only got a bunch of amazing orgs in one room, but also allowed us to connect with so many great folks in our community to talk about the state of houselessness in Boston since Wu’s vicious attack on Atkinson St. It was also incredible to see past Warm Up volunteers leading new groups in this area! If you reached out to us, we have a whole bunch of messages and we will be getting back to you all as soon as possible. #WarmUpBoston #LiberationSoup #Cambridge #CommunityDefense #HarmReduction #Indigeneity #ClimateJustice #Abolition #TenetUnions #AntiWar #ImmigrationJustice #MutualAid #OrganizedLabor #BlackLiberation #QueerPower #TransPower #DisabilityJustice #Activism #BostonActivism

Watch this short documentary with vintage 1970s news footage about Judith Heumann and many others struggling to get Section 504--which was already U.S. federal law--to actually get enforced.

Cringe at the terms used in the 1970s to describe people with disabilities...

https://youtu.be/52XqupjXHIM

The Power of 504 by the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF)

#JudyHeumann #JudithHeumann #a11y #Disability #DisabilityRights #DisabilityJustice #Section504