#fakingdisability — Public Fediverse posts on home.social

Accessible rail travel and people faking disability:

You’ve probably heard of mystery shoppers – people who act as customers on behalf of consumer organisations etc.

And one way for the Department for Transport in England and Wales to monitor rail accessibility would be to use disabled mystery shoppers

You might think so anyway

But no, they (or at least the market research company acting on their behalf) have been using non-disabled mystery shoppers *pretending* to be disabled: https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/rail-companies-are-using-access-stats-from-mystery-shoppers-who-pretend-to-be-disabled/

WTAF?! 😳