#ucaccessnow — Public Fediverse posts

Re last boost: This problem has compounded the already-extant tendency of University of California and other universities to engage lower quality, less private "accessibility" services from the private sector. UC used to hire student notetakers AS A JOB. It helped out not just the disabled student or staffmember, but the abled student who got the work/study job.

Now UC foists Otter and other services on disabled people at UC and it invades their privacy and the privacy of others (including during online union meetings...which UC management has an interest in poking into).

https://mastodon.social/@yaelwrites/116571916006444049 #Ableism #Union #Labor #UCAccessNow

RE: https://ecoevo.social/@ml/115962771169084775

One of the most publicly visible things UC Access Now did in the beginning was to make apparent to sighted people how often University of California was flouting federal and state laws regarding accessibility. Because we dragged them in public, on Twitter, they started changing (without ever acknowledging our work, of course), but they still do show that ableism dies hard.

"Lunn Lecture 2025 - 2026 Poster" is not alt text nor an image description. It's a caption. It's something an abled person puts in the alt text field to say that they've put something in there. But that's what is in the alt text field on the UC Davis Dept. of History site. #Ableism #UCDavis #UCAccessNow

UC President Drake's letter to the UC Board of Regents: https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Letter-from-President-Drake-Chancellors-Policies-Impacting-Expressive-Activity.pdf

Here's UC Access Now's list of UC decisionmakers to contact. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MGJVlTA2RdWwnpLgRt3MP2lN81MLtHMBYXapqDu8S3U/edit?usp=sharing

You can also call/write your CA assembly member and senator, if you're living in California. https://whoaremyrepresentatives.org/

#UCAccessNow #StudentSpring #Ableism #NeoliberalHellhole

Conversation about how acccessibly and compassionately (or not)
emergency drills and actual emergencies are handled. While it started with a memory from grammar school, rest assured that emergency planning for universities is not that much more accessible or caring.

We pointed this out in the UC Access Now Demandifesto in 2020 and UC brass still have not responded to us. https://mastodon.sdf.org/@msquebanh/111298199428616784

#UCAccessNow #Accessibility #EmergencyPlanning

Submitted online to be asked in response to something Barbara Smith, JD said, but not passed on as an actual question to the panel: #Disrupting Ableism #disability #DisabledInSTEM #UCAccessNow