The six-time gold medallist is campaigning for WeThe15 – a global human rights movement that will feature at the Tokyo 2020 ParalympicsEllie Cole is a bonafide Australian sporting champion. Yet as other women athletes, or sportspeople of colour, or oth…
Britney Spears’ case has shown why guardianship laws need to change | Nina A Kohn
Assigning someone the legal power to make decisions for a vulnerable adult should always be a last resortAround the world, fans of pop star Britney Spears celebrated her father’s announcement last week that he would resign as her conservator. This deve…
‘Hidden pandemic’: Peruvian children in crisis as carers die
With 93,000 children in Peru losing a parent to Covid, many face depression, anxiety and povertyWhen Covid-19 began shutting down Nilda López’s vital organs, doctors decided that the best chance of saving her and her unborn baby was to put her into a c…
Coda review – the trials of a musical teenager in a non-hearing household
This year’s Sundance hit, about the daughter of deaf parents who dreams of becoming a singer, is undeniably feelgood, if a little formulaicWhen Ruby Rossi (Emilia Jones) sings, she gets a good feeling. Sorting through the daily catch aboard her family’…
Twitter’s web redesign isn’t as accessible as it should be, experts say
After teasing its new font in January, Twitter made some major changes to its website and app design this week. But while Twitter framed these updates as making the platform “more accessible,” some accessibility experts say that these changes missed the mark. Most noticeably, tweets now appear in “Chirp,” Twitter’s proprietary typeface, and the display […]
Twitter’s web redesign isn’t as accessible as it should be, experts say
After teasing its new font in January, Twitter made some major changes to its website and app design this week. But while Twitter framed these updates as making the platform “more accessible,” some accessibility experts say that these changes missed the mark. Most noticeably, tweets now appear in “Chirp,” Twitter’s proprietary typeface, and the display […]
Disabled woman wins permission for judicial review of Hampstead Ponds charges
Christina Efthimiou claims new charging regime discriminates against disabled swimmersA disabled woman has won permission for a judicial review of the new charging regime for swimming at Hampstead ponds in north London, which she claims is discriminato…
How the ‘art of the insane’ inspired the surrealists – and was twisted by the Nazis
The author of an acclaimed new book tells how Hitler used works by psychiatric patients in his culture warOn a winter’s day in 1898, a stocky young man with a handlebar moustache was hurrying along the banks of a canal in Hamburg, north Germany. Franz …
South Western Railway launches 10 minutes’ notice assistance scheme
Disabled or elderly passengers will no longer have to book hours or a day in advance to travelDisabled or elderly passengers who need assistance to board trains will be able to turn up and travel rather than book six hours ahead, under a scheme launche…
Focus On ADHD
ADHD by PracticalCures (cc by)brainwane has a couple of great posts up about ADHD: The World Federation of ADHD’s International Consensus Statement of 208 Evidence-based conclusions about the disorder, and “this was like discovering DNA”, about David C…