Gregor Wolbring

Wolbring Gregor and Fast Victoria (2025) A briefing paper on the state of the art of accessibility research focusing on disabled people, including research on attitudinal accessibility and attitudinal barriers Briefing paper, Prism University of Calgary; DOI: dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRI... ;

may be of interest ? Wolbring, Gregor; Mahr, Dana; Lamoureux, Rochelle (2025) “Teaching about the intersectionality of disabled people using an intersectional pedagogy framework: a primer”; at hdl.handle.net/1880/121054; DOI: dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRI... #disability #disabled

part 2 As to physical accessibility I use the Scope data this survey in this story www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-... an example of accessibility anxiety ((worry that something is not accessible) a part of disablism anxiety which stops people even trying to go

part 1
....and of course accessibility goes beyond physical. And not sure AI will be any help. Having a few more meetings where we are present does not change the vast problem with the data out there. And even if the data would be good its of course often ignored in building codes.

Airlines sue to overturn rule against breaking wheelchairs Major carriers are trying to overturn a Biden-era policy that ended decades of mistreatment.

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Lisa Meeks, PhD, MA on LinkedIn: Prevalence of Disability and Use of Accommodation Among Medical School… In 2016, 2019, and 2021, we published the first prevalence studies in JAMA and JAMA Network Open on learners with disabilities in #MedEd and their use of…

From Lisa Meeks In 2016, 2019, and 2021, we published the first prevalence studies in JAMA and JAMA Network Open on learners with disabilities... www.linkedin.com/posts/lisame...

Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

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Opinion | CDC Researchers Ordered to Retract Papers Submitted to All Journals Banned terms must be scrubbed from CDC-authored manuscripts

www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faus... and this means if this is correct that AI bots will return also more biased data in the future

And to be clear every one has accessibility needs. The ability privileged just take them for granted. We have a washroom as part of the building code as the human physiology needs something and public health demands we humans access washrooms.

Besides the differences in life expectancy, the analysis also revealed ADHD to be linked with a higher risk of mental health issues — such as anxiety, depression, self-harm, suicide and personality disorders.
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But why ? Due to how they are treated by society?

Well, the White House has taken down its web accessibility statement www.whitehouse.gov/accessibility/
And then they say "Every single day I will be fighting for you .... ." www.whitehouse.gov
My comment: We are obviously not the "you".

FEDERAL EVIDENCE AGENDA ON DISABILITY A Report by the DISABILITY DATA INTERAGENCY WORKING GROUP of the NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL January 2025 www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u... #disability

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Your kids are sick all the time because public health leaders chose to let it happen.

There are details, and there are more in-depth explanations, but in the end that's what it boils down to. They listened to their egos instead of experts, and made bad choices.

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'Sign language is woke now': Outrage over right wing's new culture war Add sign language to the growing list of right-wing culture attacks sprouting up among conservative voices as Donald Trump's inauguration fast approaches.Critics began to pounce after conservative inf...

“'Sign language is woke now': Outrage over right wing's new culture war”

Erik De La Garza
January 10, 2025

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How a robot cafe in Tokyo aims to empower – not replace – human workers Inventor Kentaro Yoshifuji’s robots allow people to work at the Dawn cafe from anywhere in the world – ‘teleportation’ technology that could open up new demographics for Japan’s flatlining economy. Ad...

Remote controlling robots a form of remote working tele working interesting mentions it as an opportunity for disabled people www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/t...

Here tele driving
German startup Vay is pushing teledriving— vay.io
www.wired.com/story/a-snea...

Altadena family says disabled father and son were left to burn: 'Nobody was coming' Anthony Mitchell Sr., an amputee who used a wheelchair, and his son Justin, who had cerebral palsy, died due to slow evacuation efforts during the Altadena fire, relatives said Friday.

Heartbreaking this culture of neglect. www.latimes.com/california/s...
like my 2009 paper "A culture of neglect: Climate discourse and disabled people "https://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/173 Hurricane Katrina quote on wheelchair user drowning (not evacuated)

Miranda Devine @mirandadevine. I actually think that's the point of them. It's to reinforce our powerlessness. Christopher F. Rufo @realchrisrufo I'm sorry, but we have to stop with the ridiculous sign language interpreters, who turn serious press conferences into a farce. There are closed captions on all broadcast channels and streaming services. No wild human gesticulators necessary. x.com/EndWokeness/st...

They won't be happy until we're all dead.

During the first years of covid, the Scottish government had terps at every press conference, while Deaf people had to beg for them from the UK government, and it rarely worked. People with hearing impairments were four times more likely to die.

If you're looking to hire people with accessibility knowledge and experience, the Accessibility Skills Hiring Toolkit created by Teach Access can help you. The toolkit provides language to use when writing job ads, and questions to ask when interviewing.

teachaccess.github.io/accessibilit...

GitHub - Heydon/principles-of-web-accessibility: How to approach accessible web interface design How to approach accessible web interface design. Contribute to Heydon/principles-of-web-accessibility development by creating an account on GitHub.

Thanks @heydonworks.bsky.social for publishing your Principles Of Web Accessibility:

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Lots of great ideas in there.

fits with that many conferences and meetings on accessibility do not offer online options :-(

Climate activists with disabilities fight for inclusion Already facing disproportionately adverse effects due to climate change, people with disabilities are often further marginalized trying to get involved in activism.

Accessibility issues ranging from attitudinal to physical to online to technological to ... hinder so many efforts by disabled activists see for example abcnews.go.com/US/climate-a... which adds to disabled activist burnout something under researched doi.org/10.3390/soc1...

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