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Access Linky: April 2018
Happy Easter all!
Welcome to my blog link-up for sharing posts with ideas and experiences (good and bad!) of physical or sensory accessibility of buildings, places, spaces, products and/or activities!
I don’t know where this year is going!? A whole school term gone and it’s April Already!
Linky Round Up:
In the round up from last time, Cerys writes about her fun day out Visiting Birmingham Art Gallery on Life and Other Stories Blog! Love the idea of the rainbow show!
Rainbow’s Are Too Beautiful shared a couple of her posts. The first was a great summary of options for Moving up in Education for autistic young adults. The next, particularly apt with it being World Autism Awareness Day tomorrow, she explains why she considers even just A few Autism Friendly Events very welcome!
Ordinary Hopes says Be Like Bob and support the Changing Places Toilet campaign! The campaign that many of us wonder why it has to exist at all? Shouldn’t equality legislation mean that everyone should have reasonable access to a suitable toilet in buildings that have toilets?
The Long Chain explains how It Ain’t Easy Being Green and that, despite all the best intentions in the world, there are many reasons some people can’t just ‘go plastic free’ as easily as others.
The linky will be open for 3 weeks!
- Link up to 2 posts each month (old or new)! It would be lovely if you could add my badge (cut and paste the code in the box under the badge image above and add it into your blog post while in ‘text’ mode of your blog editor) or add a text link back to my site so that people can find the linky and read the other blog entries;
- Please comment on this post to introduce yourself if you’re new to the linky, and comment on some of the other linked posts to help share ideas and experiences (use the hashtag #AccessLinky in your comment)!
- It would also be amazing if you could share your post (using the hashtag #AccessLinky) on social media to help spread awareness of the issues around accessibility! I’ll also try to retweet as many posts as I can!
- I welcome input from anyone that is affected by accessible design – users, carers, friends and family as well as designers, developers, managers and legislators (so pretty much everyone then!). I welome blogs from professionals and suppliers as well as individual bloggers as long as they keep within the spirit of idea exchange and are not sales posts for products or services.
….and don’t forget to check in again next month (1st of the month) to read the round up, and link up again!
Accessibility Stories (sept 16)
I am very excited to be launching my shiny new linky today!
I’m hoping this will turn into a helpful informal tool to allow an exchange of ideas and experiences (good and bad!) of the accessibility of buildings, places, spaces and products, and to spread the message much further than our lone voices can!
I welcome input from anyone that is affected by accessible design – users, carers, friends and family as well as designers, developers, managers and legislators – so pretty much everyone then!
I intend for this to be a regular monthly thing, on the last Thursday of the month, so a round up of the month’s posts of sorts (however posts don’t have to be written that month, or indeed new!). Depending on the number of posts linked, I’ll write up a little summary or pick out a few highlights at of the previous month’s entries when I post the next link.
I’m really looking forward to reading some fab posts from friends old and new!
Please read the guidelines and then get linking below (the link will be open for a week)!
Guidelines:
1. Link up to 2 posts each month (old or new)! I don’t have a badge, but it would be lovely if you could add a text link back to my site so people can find the linky and read the other blog entries.
2. Please comment on this post to introduce yourself if you’re new to the linky, and comment on some of the other linked posts to help share ideas and experiences!
3. It would also be amazing if you could share your post (using the hashtag #AccessibilityStories) on social media to help spread awareness of the issues around accessibility! I’ll also try to retweet as many posts as I can!
4. I welome blogs from professionals and suppliers as well as individual bloggers as long as they keep within the spirit of idea exchange and are not sales posts for products or services.
re-engaging with the design world
grant application approved!
We’ve had some great news for our house project!
Our application for DFG (Disabled Facilities Grant) funding has been approved by the panel!
It comes with slightly mixed emotions, as the feedback was that the panel deemed it quite clear that Twinkle’s needs require us to make significant changes to our house, which will most likely take us over the maximum grant limit. Of course we know Twinkle has additional needs and has impaired mobility, but living day to day you sort of forget! Our life with Twinkle is just ‘our normal’ and it does still take me aback on the occasions when, without much question, our little girl is slotted neatly into a ‘disabled’ category by others.
However this is very good news for us! Needing so much intervention means that the OT & surveyor are now in a position agree the proposals with us without having to return to panel. This, along with partial self funding, gives us more flexibility within the design and planning and able to pursue our preference for ground floor living for Twinkle, with full (and hopefully independent!) access throughout.
So it’s out with our fat pens and tracing paper to look at our options for getting the best from our house (for Twinkle and the whole family!)….!