Notices by UC Access Now (ucaccessnow@sfba.social)

“It’s not an honor to be on the forefront of social commentary that makes most people with privilege uncomfortable,” she says.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/02/alice-wong-interview @disability #Ableism #Disability #Pandemic

People's CDC has started a letter-writing campaign to demand to demand that Medicare extend funding for full telehealth services by Dec 18, 2024.

Please boost as this is vital for disabled people.

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/extend-full-telehealth-services

#COVIDisNotOver #Medicare #Healthcare

Disabled people are afterthoughts in emergency planning and response.

AAPD has compiled a list of resources providing help to disabled people in disasters (and remember you can also DONATE to these orgs if you can spare it):

https://disasterstrategies.org/hotline/

https://disasterstrategies.org/hurricane-helene-disability-response-update/

https://adasoutheast.org/resources/helene-resources/ (Donation info here as well)

https://aacdisasterrelief.recovers.org/

https://www.nvoad.org/

https://disasterstrategies.org/fema-ia-reforms-quick-reference-guides/

https://unitedspinal.org/disaster-relief-grant/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0P-XzPc-Cr[…]NOWth5nEodBBCohdPtjAQbp-zPexuXQkA_aem_YC0wrh-yUHiingnxZzXzzA

#Helene #Hurricane #Milton

@disability

Right-wingers instigated violence at UCLA. Then right-wingers sued, often showing a sudden suspicious interest in the Americans with Disabilities Act, claiming they were endangered by protest.

If those who support protest don't make as much noise as the right wing, if not more, the University caves with no significant pushback, once more failing the public.

You can be certain the folks who sued under ADA have no actual record of anti-ableist activism at UC.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-08-19/zero-tolerance-at-uc-campuses-in-new-order-banning-encampments-masking-blocking-paths

https://archive.is/NR6DB #UCAccessNow #StudentSpring

The Americans with Disabilities Act happened due to disabled activists taking huge risks to be heard, supported by allies such as the Black Panthers.

Repeated demonstrations, sit-ins, and lying down or sitting in their wheelchairs in front of inaccessible buses (for instance) built the momentum that led to one of those rare moments in time when politicians from both major parties agreed to actually do work and get ADA through.

If you're an abled parent enjoying elevators to BART, or an abled delivery driver using ramps and curbcuts, don't forget the disabled activists who risked so much for the infrastructure you take for granted.

In fact, JOIN disabled ppl in working not just for ADA compliance, but full accessibility & equity! Disability Justice!

Photos from this disability activism in the US: http://tomolincollection.com/

#ADA34 #UCAccessNow #Accessibility #Disability @disability @disabilityjustice

"The audit comes after six lawmakers sent a letter last year to the state auditor’s office, flagging a potential misuse of funds involving relationships with online program managers.
The letter cited recent OPM contracts at UC Berkeley’s School of Information and the University of Southern California. The lawmakers alleged a large portion of tuition went toward the OPM, in what is called “tuition sharing revenue.”"

UC fights accessible online options for disabled people while simultaneously privatizing our public university with online courses for abled people. #Ableism #UCAccessNow #NeoliberalHellhole

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/teaching-learning/2024/06/10/report-university-california-lacks-online-course

https://archive.is/7XUNo

A mistake many people make is thinking that ADA can only be met through offices of rationing & policing. No. That is how the ableists running UC *choose* to deny accessibility as the default and make ppl have to beg & eventually sue for accessibility.

Pushing for more funding for these offices is still granting their premise that doing things this way is being accessible to the public that funds UC. It isn't. #Ableism #Disability #UCAccessNow @academicchatter

https://dailybruin.com/2024/02/02/its-just-a-fact-understaffed-cae-office-fails-to-meet-students-needs

🧵 What is this? After pushing UC for 4 years now to quit designing buildings where inaccessibility is the default, a main entrance to a building is wheelchair accessible?

What finally convinced UC Davis, one wonders?

#UCAccessNow #Ableism #HigherEd @disability @academicchatter

Ah, there's the UC Davis we know.

Unnecessary steps because you weren't specifically PAID to do your duty under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act nor to actually make a public university accessible to the public.

This should have been a wheelchair-accessible slope instead of stairs.

@disability @academicchatter #UCAccessNow #Ableism #HigherEd

What finally convinced UC Davis to make the main entrance accessible instead of putting a narrow ramp out on the side by a trash can?

Oh.

@disability @academicchatter What finally convinced UC Davis, one wonders? #UCAccessNow #Ableism #HigherEd

I'm not sure why FEMA thinks abled people are so fragile that ASL cannot be a regular part of all FEMA communications, but they've created a bunch of videos called "FEMA Accessible" that seem to sometimes be accessible in the sense of having an ASL interpreter and good captions, but sometimes are about emergencies for those with mobility disabilities.

In any case, here's a playlist of those videos. If you want FEMA to keep trying, give them a thumbs up and leave comments as to what you think could be improved. More engagement will help more accessible information be produced and hopefully they can improve on it.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL720Kw_OojlKOhtKG7HM_0n_kEawus6FC #EmergencyPrep #Fire #Accessibility

Being a disabled person within the University of California can be very isolating. Help people find our account on Mastodon, please. Boost! #UCAccessNow @disability

"A new California law taking effect Jan. 1 targets the kind of “surprise” ambulance bills that put Miele’s family in debt even though they had medical insurance. These bills take the form of out-of-network charges for commercially insured patients who have no control over which ambulance company responds to a call for help.

Under the new law, patients will only have to pay the equivalent of what they would have paid for an in-network service. Health insurance and ambulance companies will have to settle the bill directly even if they don’t have an existing contract." #Healthcare

https://calmatters.org/health/2023/12/surprise-ambulance-bills-new-california-laws-2024/

https://calmatters.org/health/2023/12/undocumented-health-insurance-new-california-laws-2024/ #Healthcare