🗣 Sliding & Scrambling while Pre-Walking/Rolling Our Route for taking Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) & Denver Dept of Transportation & Infrastructure on Sheridan Blvd in #Denver #accessibility #pedestriandignity cc @sandovalcd1 @edgewaterecho Denver Streets Partnership 👟♿🚴🚌 Sasha Kestane RTD vm.tiktok.com/TTPdkHheKf/

As a DeafBlind person, I feel torn about the trend of people describing their physical appearance during meetings for those who are blind/low vision. I appreciate the effort to make things more accessible and inclusive. Truly & deeply, but-- 1/

Ideas about how to interview better

For #AutismAcceptance, I want to see museum pros develop awareness that we are your colleagues (vs. just visiting audiences). 🧵

Your Autism Awareness Day Might Be Excluding Autistic People hbr.org/2022/04/your-a…

Some ableism is obvious, but I want to mention a few types of more casual ableism I see in sensitivity reads and published works that are harder to pick up on with an abled gaze. Many of these are likely unintentional, which is why it's good to have a SR in the first place.🧵

I never understand what people mean when they claim that cochlear implant users “function like hearing people.” I’m a CI user and an audiologist, and I’ve yet to meet a CI user who functions exactly like a hearing person. I sure don’t function that way myself.

Lost a friendship this week due to nondisabled anger over being called out for how ableism impacted our friendship. I see this a lot: disabled person explains how a dynamic in any kind of relationship functions in the presence of ableism Nondisabled person gets ANGRY

I will move on but I'm hugely pissed off that the reason my name wasn't called at graduation is because the grad team put a mark next to my name to indicate that I'd be slow (something they assumed) and the person reading names thought it meant I wasn't there.

Had a few words to say about the Americans with Disabilities Act--why it's not as effective as it could and should be, why we have more work to do, and why we should celebrate badass disabled activists paving the way. Thanks for sharing your space with me, Liz Plank! 💖

1) Continually passing access costs onto consumers isn't exactly gonna get people to support accessibility. 2) Offering subsidies to accessible cab drivers is great if it'd get them to act like they drive accessible cabs instead of driving right past me. thecity.nyc/2022/9/8/23343…

Wishing a malicious compliance typewriter kid on every micromanaging professor with ableist classroom policies. vm.tiktok.com/ZMFAg9q4q/