#Accessibility for All

[disabilityaidpositivity]

[thefactcollector]

July is Disability Pride Month...

"Disability Pride Month celebrates people with disabilities, their identities, their culture, and their contributions to society. It also seeks to change the way people think about and define disability, to end the stigma of disability... It is a chance for people with disabilities to come together and celebrate being themselves, no matter their differences. It is also a chance to raise awareness of the challenges they still face every day to be treated equally." [ref]

Disability Pride Month started in the USA as a way of commemorating the passing of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in July 1990, but it has evolved and grown into a worldwide event.

Source: Wikipedia

Read more:

🇳🇿 Aotearoa New Zealand - employeenetworks.govt.nz

🇦🇺 Australia - Able Australia

🇨🇦 Canada - Canadian Association for Supported Employment

🇪🇺 Europe - ALDA

🇬🇧 UK - Scope, Humanists, and bbc.co.uk/newsround/66256333

🇺🇸 USA - '8 Facts About Americans With Disabilities' and www.ada.gov

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[uiuxcafe]

Is your website accessible? (Beginners Guide)

Making your website as accessible as possible is not just a legal or ethical requirement, it’s also a practical concern—allowing everyone to benefit from your content. Here are four areas to review.

[raelyn-against-society]

This is the point of DEI. This is why it's important. What works for some does not work for all. When everyone at the table has the same sorts of experiences, a whole lot of people don't get taken into account when decisions are made. Especially where public spaces are concerned, this is not acceptable.

just wanted to share the National Down Syndrome Society’s message for this year’s World Down Syndrome Day (21st March) 💛💙

[pallettown]

genuinely so scary that you can't access the page on the ssc website that guides you through changing your sex designation. so so fucking scary. they are already making our lives harder. they are already taking what little resources we have.

[kirby-the-gorb]

[kakief]

Beyond Buzzwords: Why DEI Matters for Everyone, Not Just Some

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) often get dismissed as corporate jargon or initiatives that only benefit certain groups. But DEI is more than a buzzword—it’s about building workplaces and communities where everyone can thrive. When done right, DEI fosters innovation, strengthens teams, and creates opportunities that lift all of us.   So, who truly benefits, and what’s at stake when we…

[ohwhatagloomyshow]

this disability pride month I’d like to spread the gospel of the shower chair. I’m not disabled but my father is, and when I first started visiting him from out of town I’d move his chair in and out of the tub as I showered until one day I said fuck it and kept it in.

And oh my god.

If you’re a person who needs a 1000°F shower, get a chair. Get a chair and let yourself sit in the sauna. It’s amazing.

Long live the shower chair.

[disabilityaidpositivity]

could you explain a bit more what this gif project you've mentioned is? I found the original post about it but still don't quite understand what you're looking for and the purpose of it.

Hi,

It started when I was making a post about rollators. When I went to add some gifs to the post, I noticed that there were very few gifs within Tumblr that show rollators. There's quite a lot of wheelchairs and canes but other mobility aids, medical devices, and assistive tools are underrepresented. However, there is an option to create a gif that Tumblr will then keep in the library so that it's available to other people when they search.

So my idea is to collect videos of disability aids, especially those that aren't as commonly seen, and turn them into gifs. I tried finding stock video but there's not very much showing rollators and other underrepresented aids, and the stock video I could find often depicts non-disabled people pretending to use these aids (and it's quite obvious) or it's elderly people (and I wanted to increase the representation of younger people using aids).

Anyone who wants to join in on this project can send video to this blog and I will then create the gif and add alt text so that the gif is then in the library and available to future posters.

I hope I've explained that more clearly but if I haven't, I'm happy to try again; please feel free to send another ask or DM me ✌️

[bogkeep]

there's something so deeply dystopian to me how tech companies don't understand that a forced convenience is not a convenience at all. i'm sure autocorrect is helpful for many, but a function that forcibly changes my actual written words and punctuation is taking away my language. photo filters can be nice but i need to choose using them myself or else i have lost the ability to take the picture i want. i don't want a machine to draw or write for me. taking away the option for me to do things manually feels like violence!!!! all this talk of endless opportunity, why are you RESTRICTING me

[uiuxcafe]

Accesibilidad Web: Tutorial para hacer tu sitio web 100% accesible

Tutorial de Accesibilidad Web: Kit Digital para hacer tu sitio web 100% accesible.

[junglejim4322]

this is a permanent list of palestinians with vetted fundraisers that have reached out to me to boost them, if you've reached out to me and you're not on here please message me again. this list will be linked in my about page and regularly updated.

Rescue Mahmoud's Family: A Call to Escape Gaza's Devastation @mahmoodeltibi - vetted by el-shab-hussein, family of 15. €10,261 raised of €60,000 goal

Standing with a Family Escaping the Horrors of War in Gaza. Help Tamer get his family of 4 out of Gaza @tameraldeeb - Vetted by ibtisams, 90-ghost, el-shab-hussein, as well as being #191 on the vetted fundraisers google doc. €17,887 raised of €40,000 goal

Help Dina and her children survive through the war. Dina is a widowed mother with a 7 year old, a 5 year old and a newborn trying to reach safety. @dina179 - vetted by ibtisams. $4,146 CAD raised of $20,000 goal

Yousef Hussein is trying to get his nieces out of gaza after the death of their mother and father. boosted by 90-ghost. $8,412 raised of $50,000 goal

shahed @shahednhall is trying to get her family (her sisters are sick with hepatitis C) through rafah crossing in the next weeks opening period. she is number 224 on the vetted list of vetted fundraisers by nabulsi and el-shab-hussein. $17,267 raised of $50,000 goal

Ola's Family Call for your Support Amid Crisis @olagaza. Number #205 on the vetted list of fundraisers $19,195 raised of $50,000 target

[egophiliac]

GET LOVED, IDIOT

GET LOVED SO HARD YOUR KIDS HOLD HANDS AND POWER-OF-LOVE YOU BACK TO LIFE

sorry guys, this is just my brain now. this is going to be the only thing I think about for the next week at least.

oh and also this

FIVE YEARS IN AND IT'S FINALLY CANON 🎉🎉🎉

WE DID IT

[vulpinesaint]

pspspspsps poetry mutuals come here... new quiz... making you the patron saint of something...

[shinesurge]

happy pride instead of throwing money in the garbage buying crappy pride shit from target or pining away for mainstream franchises that only give you table scraps when it's convenient please consider directly supporting literally any of the queer indie shit being made accessible online by queer indie creators ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ your money OR your fanwork OR whatever form of support you feel compelled to offer will be so so much more impactful; marvel movies will keep coming out no matter what, but making cool fanart for that queer webcomic you've been checking in on for years could reach new readers to help the artist make rent so they can keep posting! It all helps!! Please Consider It.