Inaccesibilty is both television and online advertisements feauring flashing and/or strobing lights in them. No prior warning, no ability to skip them, nothing. I'm lucky, since flashing lights only cause me eye pain and headaches, but those ads could genuinely kill people with epilepsy!
...Also, I'd actually still like not to be inflicted with eye pain because some company wanted 'cool effects' to show off their products. Things you're quite literally forced to watch in order to keep watching the thing you actuslly want to see should not be able to hurt people at all, not even 'lightly' or 'temporarily'!
This is absolutely Inaccessibility!
All ads should be easily skippable immediately imho, and yes flash warnings need to become standard omfg
my school has a specific room for "quiet lunch", and it's available to anyone, so even if you don't have accommodations or aren't diagnosed, you can still go and don't have to deal with the loud cafeteria
This is Accessibility!
I always love when a low stimulus environment is provided for anyone. Sometimes people are just overwhelmed and need a quiet space, no matter their diagnoses or lack thereof.
-R.
For context, I'm HoH and have APD. One time, my gf sent me a YouTube video that was basically a several song music video that also had an over-arching plot going on, but it didn't have captions. I had a lot of trouble understanding the dialogue that was interspersed with and in-between the music, so my gf straight up started messaging me while I was watching it explaining what the dialogue was saying and what was going on so I could understand it all better.
This is your gf providing you Accessibility in the face of Inaccessibility by the lack of captions!
Thank you for sharing such sweet moment, that's delightful.
-R.
I was at a queer prom in my area and there was a quiet room with a bunch of sensory toys for people who were overwhelmed or wanted somewhere quiet. I went there at one point due to being overstimulated to the point of verbal shutdown and everyone there was so lovely (someone noticed I was picking at my skin (stim) and gave me a fidget toy and multiple people checked in with me to see if I wanted a pillow as I was sitting on the floor)
I’m so glad there was a space there, especially with a lot of other areas that were pretty loud (additionally: there were places to sit everywhere in the event, which was highly appreciated when my legs and feet began to hurt a ton)
This is Accessibility!
I absolutely love seeing accessible spaces include low sensory areas with activities for overstimulation.
We just went to pride the first weekend of June and there was a very big neurodiverse friendly area with multiple booths of space!
They had pin button making and coloring pages and containers with beans and rice in them to play with and earplugs and so much more stuff! It was absolutely wonderful and helped us feel so much more comfortable at the event knowing that was there and having visited them.
-R.
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-R.
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Accesibilty is friends getting reusable straws at their homes so I can drink with a straw when coming over. I have pretty bad motor issues (dyspraxia) so drinking out of a cup without a straw or other suction-based system makes me spill or choke because I can't control the liquid flow. Plus people giving me closed cups to avoud spillage due to motor issues or my tic disorder (because why have one movement-based disorder if you could have two?/sarcastic).
This is Accessibility!
That's so wonderful anon! I'm so glad you have that group of friends.
accessibility is my english teacher who taught a yoga class during lunch sometimes (she's an actual yoga instructor just also an engoish teacher) showing me how to do yoga even w my chronic pain, helping another student w rlly bad hypermobility to keep her muscles engaged to not hurt herself, and teaching modified poses alongside the full poses
This is Accessibility!
That is absolutely amazing and makes me so happy to hear, I always feel so encouraged when seeing instructors teach modified versions of exercises and dances too
