Your daily frequent11y newsletter, brought to you by @ChrisBAshton:
- Article by Liam O’Dell, highlighting that a lot of political campaign videos lack captions, making them inaccessible to the 11 million people in the UK (1/6 of the population) with deafness or hearing loss (not to mention that 85% of all videos on Facebook are watched without the sound on). This has triggered the #NoCaptionsNoVote campaign, where deaf people threaten not to vote for parties who don’t provide captions. Liam draws attention to the closure of the Access to Elected Office Fund, which affects deaf candidates standing to become MPs, who now have to fund their own costs such as interpreters. Finally, some but not all parties have published their policies in British Sign Language.
- Bonus article: read How Philly is making all voting locations accessible for the first time ever (November 5th 2019). TDLR: all venues have been ‘accidentally’ made wheelchair accessible so that there was enough room for workers to erect the new (large) touchscreen voting machines.
Prefer longer newsletters? You can subscribe to week11y, fortnight11y or even month11y updates! Every newsletter gets the same content; it is your choice to have short, regular emails or longer, less frequent ones. Curated with ♥ by developer @ChrisBAshton.
