Huge hailstorm through Central West.
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El Gibbs
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writer about disability and stuff
Honestly, if AI can do markups of complex documents, compile multiple versions and keep track of the final text to go to the designer, I'm on board. [I promise I will stop complaining about this work when it is submitted tomorrow.]
Final tome for the project I've been working on has come in at over 46,000 words and that is quite enough.
Related, I now know quite a bit about how shit the employment system is for people with an intellectual disability.
🏳️🌈♿ Ad'm #BLM MartinGuardianship powers are removing rights of people with disability
"...it’s important for all people with disability to forward plan for ... a supported decision-making toolkit or an Advance Care Directive. These tools can protect ... ensuring personal choices on ageing are followed.
I've written over 6,500 words this week on this huge project I'm working on and am fried. Damn royal commission deadlines, but looking forward to doing words for me again when it's done.
Croakey Health MediaHow COVID is exacerbating health inequalities: Federal Minister shows the data https://www.croakey.org/how-covid-is-exacerbating-health-inequalities-federal-minister-shows-the-data #publichealth
DISABLED PEOPLE IN SPACE. There is hope for me being on a spaceship yet.
Ian.BurnetteIf you're like me, then you were really happy to learn about Mastodon's enthusiastic support for image descriptions, and you were eager to join in.
Then you went to actually write something and realized you have no idea how to present visual info in a way that is helpful/enjoyable to those who are #VisuallyImpaired or #Blind.
I found this guide really informative: https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546
Post-viral Edit: Don't forget to give the author some love on medium. They did the work!
The Disability Royal Commission hearing is on again this week, finally looking at the appalling situation for many disabled people who are stripped of the right to make basic decisions about their lives.
Anthony said on Monday that his Mum, under guardianship, was sexually assaulted and so horrifyingly neglected that she lost teeth and didn't have enough food.
Uli lived in a group home and the disability service provider got control of his money and told him what he could spend it on.
John told the DRC yesterday that he was told he couldn't even buy flowers for his boyfriend. Such a small, ordinary decision, taken away.
We need urgent change to this archaic and abusive regime that hurts so many disabled people.
There also need to be questions about why it took three years before the DRC looked at guardianship, why it took huge amount of work from disabled people to get this hearing, and why they kept trying to not have this hearing.
Strong content note for these articles - extreme neglect, abuse.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-24/disability-royal-commission-state-trustees/101689100
https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/11/23/guardianship-disability-royal-commission/
First Nations woman suffered shocking neglect for years, Royal Commission told
A woman who was put into a facility by a government agency was given monthly injections of anti-psychotics and suffered shocking neglect over seven years but received just one visit from the agency during that time, the disability royal commission heard.