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Discover a new figure or event in disability history each day! Subscribe and tell your friends! Katie Healey (she/her), PhD, CPACC ✨ AccessibleHigherEd.com DisabilityDaily.podbean.com https://ko-fi.com/disabilitydaily

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Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · Feb 7

#a11y #accessibility #AltText #disability

Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · Feb 6

Text in the image or screenshot you want to share? Make alt text easier with OCR tools like Copyfish!

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Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · 4d

Hi internet stranger. I’m so sorry for your loss. Please check out Lap of Love’s free daily Zoom support groups. I lost my baby girl last year, and the groups were the only thing that helped—community among folks who know it’s not “just an animal.”

Sending hugs 🫶

www.lapoflove.com/our-services...

“We’re here to do this together, and we’re here to give you permission to grieve.”

www.lapoflove.com

Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · Aug 16

If you include the text within the image (Success is knowing who you are) in your post, or adding it to the alt text box, it’ll be accessible to screen reader users (blind folks and others who benefit) and reach more people!

😎♿️🔥

Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · Aug 16

Fortunately, there’s an option to be reminded to add alt text before your post can be published! Then you don’t have to remember yourself, and your posts can be accessible ♿️

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Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · Aug 12

Airlines are The Worst. I’m sorry.

Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · Aug 10

📌

Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · Aug 9

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To any disabled people who are feeling unworthy and overwhelmed by the increasing amount of eugenics that have been so casually thrown around in the last few years, you're not alone.
Having to justify your existence on a daily basis is exhausting.

Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · Aug 6

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Post by Misa on Wheels that reads: People with disabilities should not need to crowdfund in order to be able to afford basic independence.

Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · Aug 4

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Quote, I do not like the world as it is; so am trying to make it a little more as I want it, unquote.
Helen Keller.
Author, activist, and co-founder of the ACLU

Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · Aug 3

I know that machine! I’m in for session 19 tomorrow. Hoping treatment is going well!

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Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · Aug 2

That! Yes!

Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · Aug 2

Ugh, I’m sorry. Have people not already realized that, yes, unbelievably shitty things we might have previously thought impossible are already happening?!

Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · Aug 1

Yes, for the April 2026 deadline. Great to see training being provided! You’re legally responsible for the accessibility of your instruction and materials, including those “hidden” behind your LMS.

Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · Jul 31

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"Inclusion is not a strategy to help people fit into the systems and structures which exist in our societies; it is about transforming those systems and
structures to make it better for everyone."
Diane Richler

Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · Jul 30

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A chronic illness can take someone who is educated, ambitious, hardworking and tireless, and rob them of their ability to work, clean house, exercise, think clearly and ever feel awake or healthy again.

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Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · Jul 29

Great, thanks for this!

Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · Jul 28

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ACLU nationwide.
Breaking: President Trump signed an executive order directing states to criminalize and institutionalize people experiencing homelessness, addiction, and mental health disabilities.

Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · Jul 28

Agreed!

Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · Jul 27

Check out Jim LeBrecht’s Change, Not Charity! www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...

Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act | American Experience | PBS

The dramatic story of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990. The film highlights the determined people who literally put their bodies on the line to pass the legislation tha...

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Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · Jul 26

Photos: public domain (ADA); Gareth Copley/PA (Grey-Thompson)

#history #OTD #TIH #HistoryTeachers #EduSky #Paralympics #sports #DisabilityRights #Skystorians #UDL #paraplegia #SpinaBifida

Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · Jul 26

Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (#ADA) in 1990; #paraplegic art historian Guy McElroy & #Welsh #Paralympic racer Tanni Grey-Thompson!

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#DisabilityPride #a11y #accessibility #law #art #BlackSky #Wales

President George H. W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act into law on July 26, 1990, on the South Lawn of the White House. Seated beside him are disability rights activists Evan Kemp and Justin Dart, both wheelchair users. Standing behind are Reverend Harold Wilke, who was born without arms, and Sandra Parrino of the National Council on Disability. The ceremony takes place outdoors in front of a fountain and a large crowd.

Cover of the book Facing History: The Black Image in American Art 1710–1940 by Guy C. McElroy. The cover features a painted portrait of a Black man wearing a brown garment against a muted tan background.

Tanni Grey-Thompson races in an orange wheelchair on a red track during the 2004 Athens Paralympic Games. Wearing a white and blue racing uniform, she leans forward mid-stride during a competitive event.

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Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · Jul 26

Check out #DisabledInSTEM for disabled STEM heroes! ✨

Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · Jul 26

Such a cool idea! Lovely!

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Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · Jul 25

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What the teacher is, is more important than what s/he teaches.
Karl Meninger

Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · Jul 25

Have a Quiet Room for folks to escape the introverts’ nightmare of full-day socializing.

Request use of unscented products to keep folks safe.

Mask!

Provide fidget spinners.

Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · Jul 25

Require plain language and defining all jargon and acronyms (as academics, our norms are inherently ableist).

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