Today's blog on the vital topic of finding changing facilities has been written for Evenbreak by Will Davies. For many years, people with very particular and quite severe disabilities would find getting out and about particularly challenging. Thousands of people living in the UK need more than just the standard accessible toilets in order to … Continue reading Changing Facilities – where are they?
Category: Disabled Access
A recent open letter published by blogger Samantha Cleasby served to highlight something which often gets overlooked in modern day society: the plight of those with disabilities. While Cleasby, who runs blog So Bad Ass, has full use of her limbs, her blog showed how much prejudice those with disabilties can face in everyday life. … Continue reading What to look out for when buying furniture for disabled people
Today Will Davies of Fubra talks about accessibility within UK airports: With the Disabled Air Passengers’ Rights Regulation being put into practice back in 2008 and the number of special assistance passengers using air travel rising in the UK, pressure has really increased for UK airports to improve their disabled facilities and accessibility. In recent … Continue reading How UK airports are improving their disabled facilities
Maya Middlemiss of Saros Research explains why it is so important that researchers include the views of disabled people: Saros Research is the UK’s main portal that qualitative researchers and user experience designers turn to, when they want to find people to give feedback on what they are doing. They specialize in matching researchers with … Continue reading Why the opinion of disabled people matters to researchers
Need money? Tick. Want a job? Tick. Can’t get a job? Tick. Well, I might be able to help you then. Take a look at the infographic just below and you might learn something. It’s a surprising little infographic and reading it might just make all the difference when you apply for the next job. … Continue reading Using Social Media To Improve Your Job Search
This campaign is being led by Evenbreak friend and partner Disability Horizons, and I have copied their blog about it here, written by Martyn Sibley: Tell us in a one minute video a change you want to see happen in 2015!!! All too often, disabled people are excluded because of physical, attitudinal and procedural barriers. … Continue reading Change for 2015 Disability Campaign.
Making health and social care information accessible Launch of consultation on the draft accessible information standard NHS England has committed to the development and implementation of a new ‘accessible information standard.’ The standard aims to establish a clear and consistent framework, and provide direction to the health and adult social care system, such that disabled … Continue reading Consultation on Accessibility – NHS England
Mobility aid users between the ages of 30 – 60 still feel the greatest stigma People who use a mobility scooter feel the greatest prejudice Decrease in those feeling unaccepted in society suggests the UK is providing greater education and awareness for disabled people. A recent survey revealed that mobility product users are feeling … Continue reading Society is becoming more accepting of mobility aid users
The blogs on Evenbreak, as you know, are all related to issues around disability and employment. This is an exception, and I've only written it on the off chance that it might be useful to readers. It is, rather bizarrely, about toilet seats! But toilet seats that I wish I'd known about years ago. I … Continue reading Unusual post – Better than Bidets!
As an organisation that works in the disability field, accessibility is crucial to everything we do. At Evenbreak we go to great pains to ensure our website and job board is as accessible as it's possible to be (the extra effort and expense is well worth it to ensure that as many candidates as possible … Continue reading Braille Business Cards – the easy way!