Imagine Better

Providing resources for disabled people, their families and whānau, and their allies, to take action for a more accessible, fair, and inclusive world.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

#FlyingWhileDisabled
New Design May Let Passengers Fly in Their Wheelchairs | by Seth McBride https://t.co/1wOTlfusP4

[RGS-IBG Higher Ed @RGS_IBGhe]

New in #Area: 'Everyday activisms: Parental places and emotions of disability activism in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand' by Carey-Ann Morrison et al. (@_ImagineBetter, @DPA_NZ, @waikato)
https://t.co/IcrX7jFU6U

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Imagine Better and Disability Responsiveness New Zealand are working with the 3 District Health Boards of Wellington, Wairarapa and Hutt Valley (3DHB) to do a project on disabled people’s experiences of accessing local healthcare services.
https://t.co/UrTrdjZFmg

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

Don’t blame disabled people.
Blame barriers.
Blame ableism.
Stop victimizing and villainizing disabled people.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

Disabled people are not “lucky” to have access and accommodation.

Barriers are torn down by the zealous advocacy of disabled people not “luck.”

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

Inaccessibility is the horror that keeps on going.
Disabled people are excluded and excluded and excluded and most people don’t give
a damn.

[Imagine Better @_ImagineBetter]

"It makes me angry to hear people are stealing mobility permits and selling them online. I've had a mobility permit stolen once and it was such a pain not parking in the mobility parks."
https://t.co/40AE7h2voz

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And she's just constantly sitting there going, ‘it's going to be a lot of money and you just need to try to be rational’,” Green MP Golriz Ghahraman told Stuff’s disability podcast What’s Wrong With You?
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"I think there is a lack of understanding of how mobility devices serve as an extension of our bodies. A broken mobility device is not an inconvenience, it is a major life-altering event that disrupts people’s lives."

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"I’ve come a long way since that first day of school, but I hope other kids with disabilities and their families don’t have to experience that same first day my family did."
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Stay safe!

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"Better inclusion, participation and wellbeing of disabled people must be a priority for action."

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[Robyn Hunt @AccEase]

"Differently abled?! Did my ears deceive me? From Kathryn Ryan previewing @ninetonoon? For heaven's sake! #euphemism #Saytheword #disability

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

For disabled people, a broken elevator is not an inconvenience.

It is an emergency.

[Robyn Hunt @AccEase]

Disingenuous of the PM to say group 3 had plenty of time being prioritised for vaccine appointments. We had no follow up to the 1st text & proactively made an appointment asp. Only in the last days has there been any effort in Welly Not so easy for some. Lots of queue jumpers tho

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

I don’t want to hear anymore about access costs for disabled people being a burden.

Inaccessibility is a burden.
Isolation is a a burden.
Segregation is a burden.
Exclusion is a burden.
Ableism is a burden.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

Medical staff to me a wheelchair user:”We are ready for you. I spent yesterday teaching the staff how to operate the Hoyer lift to get you on the table.”
Me:”I don’t need the lift. I need an accessible table.”

The cardinal rule of access is: Ask the disabled person first.

[Robyn Hunt @AccEase]

Blind Citizens NZ has won the American Council of the Blind’s “Audio Description Project's Audio Description Achievement Award in the International category.” Congratulations to all involved, a big team of many contributors. #a11y #artsaccess #media #audiodescription

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

The contortions that nondisabled people go through to avoid saying “disabled” person and replacing it with “handicapable” and “differently abled” are an exercise in paternalism, devaluation and dehumanization.

[Robyn Hunt @AccEase]

Dear @ninetonoon. Disability is not the barrier. The barrier is poverty, lack of support etc The big barrier is #a11y for many. Access to the right #tech too. No matter how confident or skilled you are etc if you can't use it you're had it! Don't blame the user. Good on the CAB.