UCSB Student-Made App Aimed at Lowering Food Costs Faces University Concerns

The university admin's concern is about money only, of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVaP1cpDefk #FoodInsecurity #StudentPoverty #UCAccessNow

"What Makes Eugene One of America’s Best Bike Cities"

University of Oregon putting UC Davis to shame here. Their cycle parking isn't perfect, but definitely a bit more accessible that UC Davis' "lightning bolt" racks that @ucaccessnow had to fight them on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLKiNj10mps #BikeTooter #UCAccessNow #CycleParkingAudit #Oregon

#California Lieutenant Governor candidate Josh Fryday answered Ballotpedia's candidate survey and whether you want to vote for him or not, he reminds you of the power that office has:

https://ballotpedia.org/Josh_Fryday#Campaign_themes

#USpol #Elections #HigherEd #UCAccessNow

This is from the POV of a Deaf person in the UK, but is applicable to disabled people in some other countries as well.

Whether you're in university or in the workforce, the learned helplessness of abled people preserved by systemic ableism shunts the burdens inherent in a rationing & policing system of "accommodations" onto the disabled person. And they you get judged for "not producing as much", as well.

https://limpingchicken.com/2026/04/22/insight-why-do-deaf-employees-have-the-added-job-of-arranging-their-own-access-support/ #Ableism #UCAccessNow #Disability #UK

Re last boost: This problem has compounded the already-extant tendency of University of California and other universities to engage lower quality, less private "accessibility" services from the private sector. UC used to hire student notetakers AS A JOB. It helped out not just the disabled student or staffmember, but the abled student who got the work/study job.

Now UC foists Otter and other services on disabled people at UC and it invades their privacy and the privacy of others (including during online union meetings...which UC management has an interest in poking into).

https://mastodon.social/@yaelwrites/116571916006444049 #Ableism #Union #Labor #UCAccessNow

Shows some of my commute to the almond orchards.

Doesn't show the many ableisms of UC Davis cycle infrastructure that UC Access Now worked to get the university to respond to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF22Az5_7S0 #BikeTooter #DavisCA #UCAccessNow

I pitched a presentation to #Spezi2026 on how abled-led cycling advocacy results in ableist cycle infrastructure and how to change that. They said they were interested, but had the schedule locked in for this year.

I see now they have a presentation in German on the inaccessibility in cycling. I may attend even though I don't understand much German...

#UCAccessNow #Ableism #Cycling #Disability

The mythology ableism creates is that disabled people are lazy, or cheaters, or not able to keep up. They're projecting.

Abled people constantly put off accessibility. Disabled people have been around FOREVER. And ADA is 36 years old this July. The UC Access Now Demandifesto was released in 2020.

But our public university still isn't ready because it doesn't want to be accessible to all of the public funding it.

It's one reason their whole stance is about "compliance"...being forced to. Not joyfully building an accessible education system.
https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/employee-news/update-on-digital-accessibility-compliance/ #UCAccessNow #Ableism #a11y

Uncritical press about City of Davis/UC Davis cycle-friendliness?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh2yk23SkCw #BikeTooter #UCAccessNow #DavisCA