Tweets of the week - disability style
| 10:05 UK time, Wednesday, 13 July 2011
140 characters don't give you much to play with but these Twitter users have given us some interesting disability insights in the last week.
If we can't find a way to make braille technology affordable, I don't see our literacy rate growing anytime soon.
Communication tips: when talking to a lipreader, speak clearly, at a regular pace, don't over-emphasise words, and make eye contact.
Coffee definitely tastes purple here. Synaesthesia. Just something about the brew I think.
Look Supre, I know you probably didnt make 'jeggings' with chicks in chairs in mind but... #accidentallyaccessiblefashion
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Comment number 1.
At 15th Jul 2011, SuperhumanDiva wrote:You deleted my comment simply because I did not agree with you??????
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Comment number 2.
At 15th Jul 2011, darrowsgirl wrote:And tweeting contributes to improving understanding of disability how exactly?
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At 15th Jul 2011, MM wrote:I find it a bit lazy the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ is relying on twitter instead of researching news properly, bit of an climb down from serious reporting. Twitter indeed facebook has made not an single viable contribution to advancing disabled qualities via law at all. It's mostly trivia and always will be, twitter is an 'social site'. If you want in depth you still have to revert to message boards, News papers, TV, or blogging, even the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ recognizes it needs bloggers. Twitter is for people with nothing much to say, hence the 140 char limit, and it seems most are pushed to say something enlightening even then. I'm a bit concerned with the sanitizing of OUCH by the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ, where concerns are frowned upon, let the bloggers justify what they write themselves BB. Some are I am told, over the age of consent.
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At 15th Jul 2011, RoseRodent wrote:The important thing is who people are tweeting and sharing information TO. I have a lot of disabled friends on social networking sites who spend a lot of time and effort on "awareness" campaigns on various disability themes, but they are read, "liked" agreed with and retweeted by people who already know and understand, who share with other audiences who already understand. I've yet to receive a comment on a disability-themed tweet from anyone who is not disabled! It's not just sharing that matters, but who you are sharing WITH and what they do with that information.
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At 15th Jul 2011, mistynow wrote:Govt forced to delay flagship Welfare Reform Bill in the Lords due to peers' concerns over number of people affected
Wonderful tweets on twitter today :)
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At 15th Jul 2011, MM wrote:Dunno RR I stopped wasting time sifting through the dross to find anything, i am in neither twitter or facebook... The laugh is the people who read social sites then do an blog on it, consider themselves some sort of journo, strange ! Cut+paste+10 pennorth, not news as I see it... When did plagiarizing become an art form ? SO it saves time you wading through the mire of trivia ? depends WHAT they report and IF it is valid. Anyone can say anything online.
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