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Google Doodle Honors Pioneering Disability Activist Ed Roberts
Posted by ADA Sign Depot on Jan 23, 2017
TED Talk. Disability Activist Ed Roberts. Throughout his lifetime, Roberts fought for people with disabilities to have the right to fully participate in society. Ed Roberts is often called the father of the Independent Living movement.
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“Disability…is fundamentally a public concern, affecting everyone directly or indirectly and revealing our obligations to one another as members of a democratic society. Issues of accessibility can be fully addressed only through public institutions and collective effort. For the disability community, there is no answer but politics.”
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The Quest for “The Holy Braille” Full-Page Refreshable Braille Display
Posted by ADA Sign Depot on Jan 13, 2017
If all goes as planned, The Holy Braille, a project from the University of Michigan School of Information to develop a full-page refreshable braille display, could revolutionize the pace of education for people with visual impairments.
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Imagine being a high school track athlete one day. And paralyzed the next. The one minority group every American can suddenly become a member of is the disabled. According to Social Security Administration disability facts: “The sobering fact for 20-year-olds, insured for disability benefits, is that more than 1-in-4 of them becomes disabled before reaching retirement age.”
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Streep-Trump debate a too-familiar controversy on disability
Posted by ADA Sign Depot on Jan 09, 2017
After legendary actress Meryl Streep focused her criticism of Donald Trump on his mocking of Serge Kovaleski (a well-respected New York Times reporter who has a physical disability) — calling it the 2016 “performance” that broke her heart — an all-too-familiar debate followed.
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