BFTP: Playground accessibility for parents with disabilities
Parking and pathways and seating? This is a piece of cake. This is public design 101. It should be something that is an essential part of building new playgrounds and of upgrading existing ones.
But no one is bothering. People with disabilities are supposed to be the passive “cared-for”, not active carers.
Femmostroppo Reader December 16, 2010
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Intersectionality and Privilege: Addressing the Squishy Bits
Not all questions have clear answers. Sometimes, there is no “right” answer. Sometimes, every “right” answer carries a little bit of wrong in it too. This is especially true when we take a feminist approach informed by intersectionality; a feminism informed by the knowledge that privilege operates in a multitude of ways, that different types [...]
Did you know people with artificial legs shouldn’t go hiking?
Funny. I thought the whole point of a prosthetic leg was to enable a person who needs it to do pretty much the same range of things as a person who doesn’t have a prosthetic leg. Sometimes, it enables the prosthetic-leg-user to do those things even better than non-prosthetic-leg-users.
Femmostroppo Reader – September 29, 2010
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Accessibility and Sydney’s public transport: knowing where you’re going
One thing that I particularly enjoy when I visit another place is figuring out how to use the public transport system. I like the fact that I can figure it out – that the tools provided are tools I am able to use. Some of the tools which are commonly available (sometimes online) are: timetables and route maps, route diagrams at stations/stops and in the relevant vehicle, stop announcements (visual and audio), signs at stations/stops.
Perhaps it’s ironic, but I think that Sydney is one of the worst places I’ve been when it comes to figuring that sort of thing out. This has a serious impact on the accessibility of our public transport.
Barbara Moore’s book launch today in Melbourne: Cosmic Collisions and Falling Bodies
With apologies for the late notice. Please also note that Barbara Moore’s book has now been published by MacMillan, and her sister will be receiving her Master’s degree this weekend. ~~~ Last Year we posted an obituary honouring the life and work of Barbara Moore, a remarkably courageous and comically gifted feminist writer and poet, [...]
Accessibility statement = waffle that should be kept out of the Senate, says Abbott
The parliamentary secretary for disability, Bill Shorten, said Mr Abbott’s comment was ”an insult to the millions of Australians living with impairment … who have campaigned for decades to improve access to cinemas”.
Children are awesome
My scooter stopped today, while I was out with the Lad. Just … stopped. No lights, no fuel indicator lights, no beepability, brakes locked on. “Bother”[1], thought I, “that’s going to be a right pain in the buttocks”. There were a few people in eyeshot, though not in close range. Three primary school aged children [...]
Liveable House Design
A new voluntary building code on house design is being released today by Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities, Bill Shorten. (please note link is to the media article on the code, not the code itself). Some exerpts from the article (SMH 13.7.10 author Kristy Needham): A minimalist step-free shower; a corridor wide enough for a sofa; and a [...]
Quickhit: Mental clinic bans patient from nursing
THE enrolled nurse Alistair Colgrave was driving home after his first shift at a psychiatric unit on the north shore when he received a call from his boss telling him not to return.
National Deafblind Awareness Week
I hadn’t especially considered whether improvements could be made here for those who are Deafblind, and I have no idea (yet) what their specific needs are for web access.
It’s now on my to-do list.
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