#accessibility fail

[trek-tracks]

Thanks, World Cup automatic closed captioning, but somehow I don’t think those are the actual words to the national anthem of Jordan.

[lifewithchronicpain]

What the hell

[totalstupidityaddict]

still pissed off that the place where I go for therapy has not one, but TWO massive staircases on the way in. No ramps or anything. No elevators. No alternatives at all. The railing on the second staircase is totally busted and can't support any weight

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Does anyone else find this image description extremely funny?

[ridley-was-a-cat]

Just a short note to whine about the brain geniuses at Tumblr HQ deciding in all their great wisdom to have the alt text box cover the image it asks you to describe. Great work boys, hit the showers.

[heyatleastitsnotcancer]

So I went to try on some clothes at h&m today and of course the one accessible dressing room was taken by an able bodied teenager. Her mother looked at me with my forearm crutches and says "oh she'll be a while."

I should have just sat there and waited while staring her down but of course I chickened out and was all nice about it so I struggled in a regular stall to fit my crutches while trying on clothes. Gah, I wish I had said something!

[princeofchronicpain]

My favorite, “disabled lifts”. I especially love the one pictured above, which has a sign on it where disabled is misspelled. The sign also has both the person on a wheelchair symbol and a baby stroller. The sign reads “NOTICE. To use the diabled [sic] lift, please come upstairs to the buffet and notify a member of staff so that we can turn the power on. Thank you.” Those who made this sign seem to be completely ignorant of the irony of this sign: if you need the lift, you can’t go upstairs to ask for them to turn on the lift. I don’t understand why they keep these things behind lock and key. To save on electricity? How is this legal?