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		<title>What's Wrong About Going On Stage In A Wheelchair?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 04:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People use negative language about disabilities without realising they do it. I was watching a musician&#039;s interview on YouTube and he made a comment about wheelchairs as a jest. Only it&#039;s not really funny.	(...)Continue reading the complete What&#039;s Wrong About Going On Stage In A Wheelchair? post.
	
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		<title>Digital Access to Tertiary Education - GAAD Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 22:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[9 May is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. &#034;The purpose of the day is to get people talking, thinking and learning about digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) accessibility and users with different disabilities&#034;. Today I&#039;ll talk a little bit about access to tertiary education.	(...)Continue reading the complete Digital Access to Tertiary Education - GAAD Day post.
	
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		<title>Our Homes, Not Nursing Homes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toni died in a nursing home last week. Toni was like a grand-father to me. He dealt with several disabilities, left over from a stroke he had in the 1980&#039;s. His frail elderly wife was taking care of him, but it just became too much. She could not care for him anymore in their home, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disability in Movies, Television and on the Stage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disability rights activists often complain that the tv/movie industry doesn&#039;t represent people with disabilities accurately. It is said that few characters with disabilities appear in these media. It is further said that when they do appear, they are stereotypical and misrepresentative. And to add insult to injury (pun intended), disabled characters are rarely played by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Denis Boudreau Suggests A New Approach to Web Accessibility</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Denis Boudreau just proposed A New Approach to Web Accessibility - Learning to Let Go. In effect, he suggests that accessibility advocate stop discussing success criterion and focus more on discussing the barriers. He suggest we trust web developers to use their imaginations to resolve those barriers. I think there&#039;s value in these ideas, yet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Disappointing Evening at Confoo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite a great time at Confoo&#039;s speaker&#039;s dinner last night, my evening left me feeling a bit shit. A compilation of things made the night &#034;not very good&#034;.

	(...)Continue reading the complete A Disappointing Evening at Confoo post.
	
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		<title>Accessibility: No Rights Without Responsibilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This presentation talks about rights and responsibilities of people with disabilities and developers to work towards a barriers-free internet. It was originally given at Confoo 2013.

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		<title>10 Lessons (re)Learned From Wheeling To Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I walked to work today. I learned, or rather learned again,  several important lessons. Unfortunately, I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ll do it again – it just  wasn&#8217;t safe.

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		<title>Disability Simulations, Perceptions, etc</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 03:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Ball (@silktide) published an interesting blog a few days ago: Things I Learned By Pretending To Be Blind For A Week. His focus was around web accessibility. He had some interesting conclusions, and the discussion in the comments was also interesting. Still,  disability simulations leave me a bit cold.

	(...)Continue reading the complete Disability [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TIANZ Survey About Disability Misses The Mark</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 01:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tourism Industry Association New Zealand is currently running a survey on their homepage. They want to know how tourism operators are doing providing services to people with disabilities. On the surface, this is good. Yet, I&#039;m left with a bad taste in the mouth looking at the survey.

	(...)Continue reading the complete TIANZ Survey About [...]]]></description>
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