Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Stop acting like the law is…, in reply to mark taslov,
Perhaps tauiwi would have been clearer
to me, but fair point in general
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Hard News: Orcon IRL: Vote Auckland, in reply to nzlemming,
there will be no rage-pies
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to BenWilson,
The removal of the Braille identification information is a bit of a worry. Not sure what's replacing it. I don't know how well that kind of law protected the sight impaired before.
It didn't. That's a great example of an advance being overturned for the minor convenience of businesses.
I've asked most taxi drivers I've ridden with about those braille labels on the inside of their doors since they were introduced (after a battle), mostly Auckland ones but some Welli operators as well.
Every single one had passengers who had used them to verify who was the registered driver of that cab. Until blind colleagues educated me, I had not thought how it would feel to get into a vehicle and have no way to identify the driver if anything went wrong. He sounded a bit tall, your honour.
As you say, apps can also fulfil that function. But govt will need to specify that as a requirement in any regulations (and their track record is not inspiring). Or it gets treated as a cost with no understood benefit, much like ensuring universally accessible buildings, websites, etc.
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Hard News: Orcon IRL: Vote Auckland, in reply to Trevor Nicholls,
Technically a diaeresis as I learned today via someone on twitr (ta, whoever you were). Makes us sound out the 'o' and the 'e' separately rather than call her Klo.
Stoked to see the most interesting candidate of the bunch finally given a spot on a panel.
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Access: Autism: where have we come from…, in reply to Tanya Breen,
Thanks, Tanya.
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Hard News: Stop acting like the law is…, in reply to mark taslov,
I for one have never seen welsh or german written without caps.
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Polity: Behavioural economics and Hekia Parata, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Was bad poetry involved?
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There's a generalised assumption that disability is temporary and curable - and as we've discussed previously, including a rehab academic as the only disability perspective on the govt's welfare panel didn't help MSD's understanding.
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Access: Autism: where have we come from…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Indeed. That sort of thinking is rife in govt middle managers. No meaningful investment in disability awareness across public sector. Frittered away the scarce public programme funding too.
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You seem to be labouring under the delusion that teachers make school budget decisions, rather than boards of trustees who are usually parents.