Tag: disabilities

Ten months after promised review, disabled Twitter users still don’t have the right tools to flag disability hate speech says UK Charity

Stuart Mitchell

Muscular Dystrophy UK is calling for Twitter to make it easier for disabled people to report hateful comments against them, ten months after the platform first said it would review the process. While abusive tweets based on someone’s race, religion, gender or orientation are readily reportable in a dropdown menu on Twitter, disability is not listed as an option. The only indication that hateful comments based on someone’s disability are unacceptable on Twitter involve clicking through several extra screens to locate the site’s 2,000-word rules, which include a single mention…

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Access Israel Replaces disabled parking spot signs with the pictures of real people

Stuart Mitchell

We’ve probably seen it happen a zillion times and we’ve maybe even done it ourselves once or twice: parking in a spot for disabled people. Yeah, we’ve all seen it happen before: a car blitzing into a parking spot reserved for the disabled only for its driver to step out seconds later on two perfectly functioning legs. Sure, if you ask the driver he’ll probably have a whole battery of excuses to go with his blatant misbehavior and disrespect. Anything ranging from: “I’ll only be a second”, “I’m just picking…

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Women with disabilities may be missing out on cancer screening

Stuart Mitchell

Women with disabilities are a third less likely to participate in breast cancer screening and a quarter less likely to take part in bowel cancer screening compared to women reporting no disabilities, according to a new paper published in the British Journal of Cancer  by researchers from the University of Oxford. More than a fifth of the nearly 500,000 women who were offered breast or bowel cancer screening reported some disability; difficulties with mobility were the most commonly reported. Women with two or more disabilities were less likely to take…

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