Accessibility in the News — 10/29 /2021.

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It’s Time For Businesses To Wake Up To The Normality Of Disability

October 28, 2021 | Source: Forbes

This month marks National Disability Employment Awareness Month in the USA (NDEAM). Whilst I strongly believe that it is outdated to have a month dedicated to discussing something that the case has already been made for, it is helpful in driving forward the much-needed conversation. This year, for example, President Biden’s opening statement to mark the launch of NDEAM, highlighted his administration’s commitment to creating a more inclusive society as we work through the changes the last eighteen months has brought us…

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All Wheels Up Brings Wheelchair-accessible Planes One Step Closer

October 22, 2021 | Source: SMA News Today

Flying can be an ordeal for many people with disabilities who rely on wheelchairs to get from point A to point B. Sometimes disabled travelers get to their destination only to realize their wheelchair or scooter is broken or missing.

In 2019, the year after airlines were required to release statistics on mishandled wheelchairs following the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Act of 2018, the Department of Transportation (DOT) reported that more than 10,000 mobility devices were mishandled…

Students can learn with their mouths as well as with their eyes and hands

October 24, 2021 Source: Salon

The first time that I met a blind scientist, I was in an NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates at the University of Delaware, a program geared toward disabled students interested in pursuing STEM research. Until that point, it hadnever occurred to me how science education excludes blind students. My daily experience in classrooms consisted of professors drawing molecules on the board or writing out an equation with the assumption that students in the class could see what was being written, very rarely even stating what they were writing. But what about the blind and low-vision students in the classroom?…

Reluctant localities are being dragged into court to fix sidewalks for people with disabilities

October 23, 2021 | Source: Sentinel Source

From her Baltimore dining room, Susan Goodlaxson can see her neighbor gardening across the street. But while other neighbors stop to chat, Goodlaxson just watches from the window. She uses a wheelchair, and there isn’t a single curb ramp on her block. If the 66-year-old wanted to join, she’d have to jump her wheelchair down the 7½-inch curb and risk a fall. Ditto if she wanted to wheel over to the library, a trip that would require riding in the street to avoid rampless curbs and broken sidewalks…

Mass. lags badly in workplace accessibility for disability community

October 23, 2021 | Source: CommonWealth Magazine

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month. NDEAM’s roots go back to 1945. It is held each October to “commemorate the many and varied contributions of people with disabilities to America’s workplaces and economy.” Seventy-six years later, however, many people with disabilities in Massachusetts are unable to “contribute” to “America’s workplaces and economy” because Massachusetts law does not require workplaces that aren’t open to the public to be accessible—even if they are in new or substantially renovated buildings…

Meet the 15-year-old blind quarterback hoping to reach the NFL

October 23, 2021 | Source: CNN

Jasen Bracy is unstoppable when he’s on the football field. The 15-year-old Modesto Raiders starting quarterback is completely blind — and a merciless athlete, passing the ball, running touchdowns and breaking tackles.

“I never used even once that I can’t see as an excuse. Never have, never will,” Jasen, who lives in Modesto, California, told CNN. “I told my team that the only difference between me and the other quarterback is that he has a different number, and that’s it.”…

Florida educators tied mask to disabled student’s face for 6 weeks without parents’ consent, father says

October 23, 2021 | Source: Fox

A Florida father is accusing educators at his daughter’s elementary school of forcing his daughter with Down syndrome to wear a mask by tying it to her head for about six weeks. Jeffery Steele’s daughter, Sofia Steele, is nonverbal and has an enlarged tongue. On Oct. 7, Sofia stepped off of the school bus with a mask, wet from her saliva, tied to her head with a thin, nylon string, Steele told Fox News Digital, but she did not leave for school with a mask on that day or any day prior…

National Blindness Awareness Month: Legally blind man spreads positivity, advocates for others

October 25, 2021 | Source: Spectrum News

A good bowler usually scores around 200 in a single game. Wilbert Turner has a world record of 207 and he’s been blind since birth. “I love competition,” said Turner. “I am a competitive person, whether it be sports, whether it’s life, whatever it is. I put my best foot forward.” Turner was born with nystagmus, weak optic nerves, among other disorders and his eyes never fully developed. “I’m in a fog. I’m not in the dark. I’m in kind of maybe gray,” said Turner. “I’m very fortunate in some ways that I was born blind. And by being born blind, it was not an adaptation for me. It was a way of life for me.”…

Accessibility in Columbia: ‘Sidewalks are not just for people with disabilities, they impact everyone.’

October 26, 2021 | Source: KBIA- Missouri Health Talks (Podcast)

Critics say 34th Ave Open Street blocks off disabled and elderly

October 26, 2021 | Source: Queens Daily Eagle

Lydia Olmstead and Dr. Jacque Sample work together on the Columbia Disabilities Commission. Lydia is a person who happens to be deaf/blind, and Dr. Sample has a son with a disability. They spoke about Columbia’s sidewalks and about improvements that would make the community more inclusive – and perhaps even more environmentally friendly. Lydia Olmstead: For me, personally, I rely very heavily on the truncated domes. That’s basically bumpy dots on the curb cut at street crossings that indicate to someone like me who’s blind that I’m approaching a street…

One school still uses electric shock devices on its students. Seven senators are leaning on the FDA to get them banned

October 26, 2021 | Source: The 19th

Multiple senators are pushing for an end to the use of electric shock devices on people with disabilities, a tool that is now used by only one school in the United States, where most of the students are Black and Latino boys and men. At Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton, Massachusetts, some students at the school wear devices at all times, while staff members monitor them for infractions. Students who engage in an undesirable behavior may receive a painful shock. Students can also be put in four-point restraint and shocked repeatedly for transgressions ranging from self-harm to failing to pick up a jacket when told…

Bride surprises fiancé with tactile wedding dress

October 27, 2021 | Source: Yahoo & News18

When Kelly Ann Ferraro set out to find her wedding dress, . her top priority wasn’t whether it would look good in pictures but whether it would feel good to her future husband. As she met the groom, Anthony Ferraro, at the altar, she put his hands on her dress. Anthony, who is blind, started to cry. “It was the most amazing experience,” he told In The Know. “There’s silk, a velvet strip around the back and cotton, woven-in flowers. Every texture was an experience, and put this painting of Kelly in my head”…

I am currently deaf. Is this it from now on, I wonder, one thing failing after another?

October 27, 2021 | Source: The New Statesman

I have had, all things considered, a fairly good run health-wise, when you think about what I put into my body, and at my age, too. There are friends of mine whose backs are going, whose sight is going, whose digestion is going. One friend about my age is suffering from rosacea, whose effect on his complexion he describes, rather wonderfully, as “like cherries jostling up in a clafoutis”. The condition comes with many grievous Thou Shalt Nots: drink neither alcohol nor hot drinks, especially anything containing caffeine; eat neither cheese nor spicy food; do no vigorous exercise…

Blind People Won the Right to Break Ebook DRM. In 3 Years, They’ll Have to Do It Again

October 27, 2021 | Source: Wired

It’s a cliché of digital life that “information wants to be free.” The internet was supposed to make the dream a reality, breaking down barriers and connecting anyone to any bit of data, anywhere. But 32 years after the invention of the World Wide Web, people with print disabilities—the inability to read printed text due to blindness or other impairments—are still waiting for the promise to be fulfilled. Advocates for the blind are fighting an endless battle to access ebooks that sighted people take for granted, working against copyright law that gives significant protections to corporate powers and publishers who don’t cater to their needs…

IPTC Updates Metadata Standards To Help the Blind ‘See’ Photos Online

October 27, 2021 | Source: PetaPixal

The International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) has released a new version of its Photo Metadata standard that includes two new properties aimed at making photos more accessible to those with disabilities, such as the blind. The IPTC says that web accessibility is extremely important in the current digital age, and as the number of images added online increases daily, the gap widens for people who use assistive technologies to access information, especially those that are blind…

To baby brains, language is language, signed or spoken

October 27, 2021 | Source: New Kerala

Parents of deaf babies are often encouraged to give them cochlear implant surgery to prevent cognitive delays. Researchers have shown that it’s the early exposure to language, not sound, that helps with normal brain development.

The findings of the study were published in the journal ‘Child Development’. “We find early exposure to language, whether signed or spoken, supports the development of typical cognitive skills,” said Corina Goodwin, a psycholinguist at UConn…

40 million Americans need to understand this news about hearing aids

October 28, 2021 | Source: SF Gate

I am a unicorn of hearing loss. I lost over 50% of my hearing three years ago thanks to a very sudden and very rude brain hemorrhage. But then, in what counts as a miracle within our health care system, my insurer paid for new hearing aids. And then — and this is the really wild part — I actually WORE them. Neither of these occurrences is common. Most insurers, including Medicare, don’t cover the cost of hearing aids, despite the fact that they require a prescription and despite the fact that they retail for as much as $4,000 to $5,000 a pair…

For parents of children with Down Syndrome, respite is elusive but joy is not

October 28, 2021 | Source: Sun Journal

Families raising children and caring for adults with Down Syndrome find themselves in a never-ending cycle of red tape for resources but also with children who enrich their lives with love and joy. The Advertiser Democrat recently held a round table interview with parents and guardians of people with Down Syndrome as part of October’s Down Syndrome Awareness Month to learn more about the everyday challenges and joys their families experience. Life for a caregiver is a continuous bureaucratic battle but also filled with love and celebrations of personal achievements…

Justice Department Reaches Agreement with Vermont Department of Corrections to Improve Access for Inmates with Disabilities

October 28, 2021 | Source: Department of Justice

The Civil Rights Division and U.S Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont today announced a settlement agreement with the Vermont Department of Corrections (VDOC) to ensure that inmates with disabilities have equal access to Vermont’s correctional facilities, programs, services and activities. The agreement resolves the department’s investigation into complaints that VDOC does not provide accessible facilities for inmates with mobility disabilities, and does not ensure effective communication for inmates with hearing disabilities, as required under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)…

What Parents Need to Know About Learning Disability Tests

October 28, 2021 | Source: U.S. News & World Report

Learning new concepts and behaviors is challenging for many children. But when difficulty persists despite extra support at home and in school, education experts start looking to see if a learning disability is at play. It may be that a child is struggling to learn to read, or that an inability to sit still and focus is impeding academic progress. Whatever the signs, learning disabilities are more common than many may think. One in five U.S. children have learning and attention issues such as dyslexia or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to the National Center for Learning Disabilities…

3 Qualities People With Disabilities Want From Non-Disabled People

October 28, 2021 | Source: Forbes

If as we so often say, people with disabilities don’t want pity, then what do we want? The most obvious answer may be something like “justice” or “equality.” But those are structural issues that are in the reams of economics, law, and politics. What do disabled people want, personally, from other people? Compassion? Not really. Compassion isn’t a bad thing. Compassion can be an important motivation for doing right by disabled people. But both pity and compassion suggest a similar kind of softness that’s nice on the surface and in the short term, but tends to be thin, weak, and temporary…

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Ade Adepitan backs campaign to make electric cars accessible for all

October 22, 2021 | Source: Auto Express- UK

TV presenter and paralympic gold-medalist Ade Adepitan has backed Auto Express’s call for action on accessibility to electric cars for disabled drivers, after we shone the spotlight on a woeful lack of accessible public charge points in the UK’s near-30,000-strong network. “It’s a great campaign, and Auto Express is to be congratulated for taking it on board,” Adepitan says, “Am I surprised by your findings? Absolutely not. As someone with a disability, and like most people in the disability world, I’m just used to it.”…

‘Appalling’: Whitehorse man calls out city for inaccessible polling station

October 22, 2021 | Source: CBC News- Canada

Ramesh Ferris said he hit a “tipping point” of frustration on Thursday, when he had trouble trying to vote in the Whitehorse city election. “It’s very emotionally draining, it’s exhausting and it’s disheartening,” Ferris said, referring a polling station that was not easily accessible for people with mobility issues. Ferris, a polio survivor, uses crutches to walk. He and his wife went to the polling station at Porter Creek Secondary School on Thursday. They arrived to find a woman pushing her kids in a stroller and trying to figure out how she’d get up the stairs to the door…

Dublin Girl, 11, Demands More Accessibility After Being Denied Park Entry

October 23, 2021 | Source: Extra- Ireland

A wheelchair-bound Dublin girl is using her voice to demand more accessibility across the country after she wasn’t able to enter a park one day. Sophia Mulvany and her dad Bernard Mulvany were enjoying a Sunday stroll one day with their dog Millie when they decided to stop by a park. However, when they approached the park they found there were unusual barriers that prevented the 11-year-old from being able to enter. ‘It didn’t feel very good — it felt like we were being ignored and it felt very discriminatory,’ Sophia told Extra.ie about the experience…

Mada Center approves 11 ATMs accessible to people with disabilities, elderly

October 25, 2021 | Source: I Love Qatar

Qatar Assistive Technology Center (Mada), in partnership with the Qatar Central Bank, has approved 11 ATMs for various banks in the State of Qatar as usable devices for people with disabilities and the elderly. The approved ATMs provide a screen reader that allows blind people to access all services independently and enables them to read currencies and arrange and collect cash denominations, taking into account screen dimming if the reader is activated in consideration of privacy, and providing a screen with colors with great contrast that enables visually impaired and elderly people to access content easily…

India must build, re-build its courts for disabled. Judicial infra key to justice delivery

October 25, 2021 | Source: The Print- India

Since he took oath as the Chief Justice of India, Justice N. V. Ramana has been vocal about the crippling court infrastructure being a stumbling block in access to justice. Judicial infrastructure is a necessary component of justice delivery and its inadequacy adversely affects not just litigants and advocates, but also the judges, judicial officers, and staff. Recognising this gap, the CJI has conceptualised the National Judicial Infrastructure Corporation or the NJIC with the intention to build modern and self-sufficient courts in India…

The five-minute test that warns of dementia – years before symptoms start

October 25, 2021 | Source: The Daily Mail- UK

Developing Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia is many Britons’ worst fear when it comes to ageing, according to a recent survey by YouGov. And it’s easy to see why. Outside the pandemic years, when Covid deaths slightly outnumbered dementia deaths (by 0.6 per cent), dementia and Alzheimer’s disease have been the leading cause of mortality in the UK. In care homes it’s to blame for more than 65 per cent of deaths, data from the Office for National Statistics show…

Putting out Halloween treats this year? Consider accessibility, says Toronto dad

October 25, 2021 | Source: CTV News- Canada & RE/Max & TV6

Toronto dad Rich Padulo has a piece of advice to add to the typical Halloween admonishments to make sure children are dressed warmly and wearing bright clothing: try to remove stairs from the scenario. Doing so will make trick-or-treating much more accessible for children with disabilities, says the Toronto father and founder of the Treat Accessibly campaign. “Take your station to the end your driveway and really hang out with people and chat with them,” Padulo told CTV’s Your Morning on Monday…

New accessibility legislation announced in Newfoundland and Labrador

October 26, 2021 | Source: SaltWire- Canada

New legislation before the House of Assembly aims to kickstart the process of improving accessibility in communities throughout Newfoundland and Labrador by removing barriers that prevent people with disabilities from fully participating in society. John Abbott, minister of Children, Seniors and Social Development, announced the proposed new accessibility legislation on Monday, Oct. 25. “When we, as a province, improve accessibility and inclusion, all persons in Newfoundland and Labrador benefit. This ultimately leads to everyone being able to fully participate in society,” Abbott said…

Every Human Is Bringing Accessibility To Fashion With The Launch Of Unpaired

October 26, 2021 | Source: Men’s Health- Australia

For those who have unique footwear needs, the world of fashion can seem inaccessible at the best of times. We’ve long known that how we present ourselves and the styles we wear speak volumes about our identity, but for many people around the world, fashion remains a barrier to such freedom of expression. Thankfully, Every Human is making significant leaps in the world of fashion to ensure there is representation for all. Through the launch of Unpaired, the adaptive fashion and lifestyle brand offers a revolutionary e-commerce shoe program that will offer customers the opportunity to purchase one or two shoes…

Sudha Chandran ‘harassment’ fallout: Govt issues draft guidelines for ensuring accessibility to flyers with disabilities

October 26, 2021 | Source: Times of India

Days after actor Sudha Chandran shared her ordeal at an airport after being asked to remove her prosthetic limb at security check and appealed for Prime Minister Modi’s intervention, the Union aviation ministry on Tuesday issued “draft accessibility standards and guidelines for persons with disabilities” — laying out dos and dents for both airlines and airport operators. The ministry has invited suggestions and comments on the same within three weeks, and then after studying them the final guidelines will be issued, as envisaged in the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Rules, 2017…

ECHR ruling ‘has Europe-wide implications’ on disability

October 27, 2021 | Source: Law Society- Ireland

Lawyers have said that a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on the accessibility of polling places could trigger legislative changes all over the continent. The court ruled today (26 October) that Slovenia had discriminated against two wheelchair users with muscular dystrophy in a 2015 referendum on gay marriage, because the country’s courts had not allowed them to request accessible polling places ahead of the vote. The ECHR stopped short, however, of saying that polling places in Europe should be fully accessible in the future…

First-ever ICT accessibility standard unveiled for Persons With Disabilities

October 27, 2021 | Source: Capital News- Africa

Kenya Bureau of Standards in partnership with inAble has launched the National ICT Accessibility Standard, which will bridge the existing digital divide and exclusion of Persons With Disabilities (PWDs). KEBS, Chief Manager in charge of standards Zachariah Lukorito said the standard will promote digital inclusion by making public and private sector digital products and services including websites, mobile applications among others more accessible…

Now, tablets with study material for visually impaired UP children

October 28, 2021 | Source: Hindustan Times- India

To enable visually impaired students in government-run primary and upper primary schools learn better, the Uttar Pradesh education department has teamed up with UNICEF to provide them tablets with pre-loaded audio learning content. First, the initiative will be rolled out in 14 districts of the state on a pilot basis, catering to 1206 visually impaired children. According to state advisor of Samagra Shiksha RN Singh, as per education department records, there were over 8,000 blind students in the state last year…

Learning to Listen from Deaf Communities (Casting Light #6)

October 27, 2021 | Source: I Care If You Listen- UK

In late 2019, or 1BC (before coronavirus) as I like to call it, the United Strings of Europe got in touch to commission a piece from me (Jasmin Kent Rodgman) for their 2020 concert series, which was to include — like many others — a celebration of Beethoven’s 250th birthday anniversary. Whilst I admire Beethoven’s music and enjoy it greatly, there were small alarm bells ringing about joining in the celebrations, mostly due to the symbolism of Beethoven and its relationship with the conservative Eurocentric face of classical music that I find problematic…

Deaf Aldi customer shares worker’s incredible act: ‘Massive thank you’

October 27, 2021 | Source: Yahoo- England

A deaf Aldi customer has praised the incredible act of a staff member at his local store after she helped him to communicate with her. The customer, Simon Houghton, gave a heartfelt shout-out to the kind Aldi staffer from Basingstoke in south-central England, who removed her face mask at checkout so he could lipread. “A massive thank you to the checkout operator (checkout seven) this morning who removed her mask from behind the perspex screen so that I could lipread, and therefore, hear her,” Mr Houghton wrote in his post…

Government Accelerates Efforts To Support Disabled Peoples Vaccination Experiences

October 28, 2021 | Source: Scoop- New Zealand

A new tool that supports disabled people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 was launched today as the country gets closer to reaching the 90 percent vaccination milestone, Minister for Disability Issues Carmel Sepuloni announced. The Manaakitanga Journey is a graphic online tool that packages up key information on the Unite Against COVID-19 website such as how to book New Zealand Sign Language interpreters at clinics, and how to arrange transport to and from your vaccination appointment…

South Algonquin businesses benefit from Enabling Accessibility Fund

October 27, 2021 | Source: Toronto Star- Canada

Angela Pollak, the secretary with the South Algonquin Business Alliance and the owner and manager at Four Corners Algonquin (which provides camping, glamping and tiny house accommodations), informed The Bancroft Times that seven businesses in South Algonquin had been approved for Enabling Accessibility Fund grants totalling nearly $500,000 for projects to improve accessibility at those organizations going forward, including her own…

Losing my eyesight helped me overcome my body confidence issues

October 28, 2021 | Source: Metro- UK

At the age of 21, while working as a cocktail waitress in a bar (name that song..!), I was trying to get several dirty martinis onto a table for the members of a raucous hen do. Normally, this would have been second nature to me but this time, I couldn’t see the table or the napkin – or even the penis straws – in front of me. In fact, everything was getting darker. It came on suddenly, with no warning and almost resulted in the unsuspecting bride getting a lap full of vodka and olives…

The bionic eye that could help blind people navigate the world

October 29, 2021 | Source: The University of Sydney- Australia

New AI-Based Rapid Screening Test for Glaucoma Could Enable Early Detection

October 28, 2021 | Source: AZoRobotics- Australia

For people with impaired eyesight or no sight at all, the world is an enormous obstacle course. Professor Gregg Suaning is pushing vision capture and nerve stimulation technologies beyond their limits to help clear a path.

As research goals go, it is bold with perhaps a touch of the miraculous. For more than twenty years, Professor Suaning has been working to bring sight to the blind. Though in the early days, the idea was almost all he had.

“We were dismantling radios and car electricals to make the equipment we needed,” Suaning says, obviously enjoying the memory…

Adopting a Disabled Lens in Art History

October 29, 2021 | Source: Honi Soit- Australia

Frida Kahlo and Vincent Van Gogh are two of the world’s most well-known and beloved artists in the western art history canon, yet neither of them is often associated with the term ‘disabled’ in popular culture. Whilst Kahlo is best known for her iconic eyebrows and traditional Mexican attire, many wouldn’t know that her signature long skirts were chosen partly to disguise a thinner and slightly shorter right leg due to childhood polio. Even her choice to become an artist was influenced by disability following a bus accident at 18…

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