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troubleJohn Stossel, if your business doesn't accommodate wheelchair users chances are you don't have many customers who are wheelchair users.
(Gentle reader, I cannot believe I just typed that sentence 20 years after the ADA passed into law.)
(There is more than that in the post, I promise.)
Today is Jerry Lewis Hates Cripples Day!. (He really did tell people with disabilities that if they don't want pity they should just stay in their homes. I'm so happy he got a humanitarian award for his work with "the disabled", aren't you?)
I was reminded by this post by Bad Cripple about new ways to create social change about how much I want to do some things on campus, like block the front access to the main admin building and advise people to "find another route" (without a sign), and go around one day and put up signs in front of every inaccessible building with "This building does not allow wheelchair users to enter".
Of course, I also want to write in chalk in front of various buildings in Halifax "Wheelchair Users Not Welcome".
You should now talk me out of this.
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Date: 2010-09-06 05:12 pm (UTC)...why?
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Date: 2010-09-06 05:38 pm (UTC)On the contrary -- i'll send you some chalk!
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Date: 2010-09-06 06:10 pm (UTC)But in case anyone accuses me of taking his words out of context...
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Date: 2010-09-06 11:33 pm (UTC)Especially the signs and the chalk; I think those would be more effective than blocking the entrance.
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Date: 2010-09-07 04:16 pm (UTC)i totally wanna help you put up signs!
although, i have minor mobility concerns that make bending down to write with chalk undoable ~pout~ i heart chalk!
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Date: 2010-09-07 08:32 pm (UTC)Just some suggestions...
*is totally enabling*
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Date: 2010-09-07 08:41 pm (UTC)that (for some reason) feels extremely thrilling
which probably means it's a good thing i don't quite know where halifax is ~heh~
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Date: 2010-09-06 04:13 pm (UTC)When I asked about a 'terp they stared at me like I'd grown an extra head. They also got shirty with me when I suggested their videos do need to be subtitled if they want them to be accessible, and then suggested they use google to sort out how to do that. I'm not very nice, and this seems to piss them off.
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Date: 2010-09-06 04:39 pm (UTC)do it! *grins and supplies paint*
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Date: 2010-09-06 04:41 pm (UTC)<3
(You should be pleased to learn that I've been taking better care of my wrists!)
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Date: 2010-09-06 04:44 pm (UTC)*I say, nursing RSI from hell this week. ok, so maybe pounding peices of plate steel into dishes for pollaxe guards was a bad idea...*
and if you want the university letterhead, if you have any correspondence from 'em, I might accidentally be able to create a nice decent high-res image for you to print out yourself, so you can have it all official on whatever size you want... :)
(and I cant talk about enabling. at her funeral, I discovered my aunt had been arrested in the 80's for spraypainting CND symbols onto the walls of the Ministry of Defence.... :) )
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Date: 2010-09-06 08:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-07 02:36 am (UTC)I will take photos if I get it done.