A really interesting video about gaming for people with physical or mental #disabilities! It's nice to see game developers take such minorities into account!
Abbott vetoes bill offering new mail voting option to people with disabilities
Is it wrong to hope his wheelchair brakes malfunctions at the top of a steep hill overlooking the busy interstate? If so, does it change your mind if you know that I, too, am wheelchair bound?
It's about how marginalized communities such #blackTwitter or people with #disabilities are using social medias like Twitter and the Fediverse, and about how we could make the #Fediverse more welcoming. I think it's a must read for any #moderator or #instanceAdmin
Don't prejudge able-looking people using parking spots for disabled. Especially if they have a disabled sticker. There are many invisible disabilities that cause pain, mobility issues, balance problems, bad lungs and other issues that make walking across a parking lot difficult.
I'm posting this for a family member who is not on Mastodon. She is 32 with an invisible disability. She has #scleraderma -- a degenerative #chronic condition. A lot of pain, on a lot of meds making her immunocompromised and other issues. Her mother also has disabilities. Neither has a wheelchair but they do have mobility issues.
She wrote "Please do not immediately assume due to age and not looking disabled on the outside that they are not truly disabled and faking it, and start yelling, screaming, swearing and degrading them. There are many disabilities which are not visible such as chronic pain, chronic fatigue, MS, arthritis, Scleroderma, lung disease, etc. Just because you cannot see the disability of a person does not mean it is not there. I have been treated like this many times, and it hurts a lot and is insulting and embarrassing. The pain of our #disabilities is enough to deal with day to day, we do not need to be treated horribly on top of it. Before acting, please find out what is going on with that person you assume is not #disabled. We are more than willing to explain, but not be treated horrible right away without asking us."
“Today is the last day to register online for our National Convention in Houston, July 1-6. Join us for an educational week of new technology, fun, and opportunity. #nfb23 nfb.org/convention” @nationsblind
she has #EhlersDanlosSyndrome and is without community. she’s hoping to find people who understand her #medical exhaustion and medical involvement.
would any of you be willing to offer suggestions for instances?
maybe instances where people with physical #disabilities and #autism gather? in a #safe environment, with very tight rules against bullying and extremism?
I don't know how to use #mastodon and I really want to move here instead of being on #twitter. The thing is, if I want to feel the pulse of reaction to something that's happened, I get zilch on here and lots over there. Any advice on how I can use this better?
@MarkMaguire@kevinteljeur@SarahDelahunty@lucyweirphd I am still on Twitter because more #pwME & #pwFM & #pwLC and #disabilities in general are over there. I have been connecting slowly with folk here, but, with one or two wonderful exceptions, there is almost no interaction here. I am #housebound & #bedridden: SM is my only social-life, or help-point. Unless matters deteriorate drastically it is unlikely that many #disabled groups will move elsewhere.
Great idea! 👍 Now artificial intelligence can be used to preserve the voices of people with conditions that could impact their ability to speak, such as ALS, throat cancer, cerebral palsy, and Parkinson’s disease, and recreate those voices for text-to-speech software.
Hi! 34/FTM. Avid #gardener finding happiness in the soil. #Garden completely from seeds. #Writing is my life. It is everything to me. I #tiedye most of the clothes I wear. My #cat is my best buddy and constant companion.
Mohammed’s opens Trinidad & Tobago's first inclusive bookstore (guardian.co.tt)
Mohammed’s Bookstore Associates Limited has opened the country’s first “inclusive” bookstore.