Blog | Tag: Accessibility (P10)
Disaster Preparedness and Disability Rights: Ensuring Safety and Access Before, During, and After Emergencies
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Emergencies can happen to anyone. But for people with disabilities, the risks are often greater. When emergency plans fail to include everyone, it can result in people being left without access to shelter, transportation, communication, or life-saving services. These are not just oversights—they can become violations of civil rights.
Assistive Technology for People with Disabilities: Your Guide to Independence & Access
Monday, March 10, 2025
Many people think assistive technology (AT) is just a convenience—like a high-tech gadget that makes life easier. But for people with disabilities, AT is essential for independence, communication, and full participation in everyday life.
Ensuring Safe Accommodations for Air Travelers with Disabilities Using Wheelchairs
Friday, January 17, 2025
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recently announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has implemented new protections for individuals with disabilities in commercial air travel. These measures are designed to ensure passengers with disabilities can fly safely and with dignity.
How to Use Easy Language
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Easy Language, sometimes called Plain Language, means writing and providing information in short, simple ways. People need information in a way that is easy to understand. When we write things in ways that are hard to understand, we can exclude people. This blog teaches you how to write using Easy Language.
Disability is Not a Bad Word: Why ‘Unique Abilities’ Isn’t as Nice as it Sounds
Friday, December 08, 2023
Members of the disability community experience very real barriers, oppression, and discrimination daily. That fact cannot and should not be swept under the rug of comforting euphemisms.
Crip the Holidays: Making Your Holiday Gathering Accessible
Friday, December 16, 2022
As you prepare for your 2022 holidays, we invite you to consider how you can make your celebrations more accessible for all of your disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent, survivor, and healing friends. We hope these five examples will be helpful to you as you prepare for a very merry holiday season.
15 Best Online Accessibility Practices
Thursday, November 10, 2022
We've created a list of our 15 best accessibility practices to make it easier for you to learn and implement accessibility online.
Disability Futures: The Power and Presence of Indigenous Disabled Stories
Saturday, November 05, 2022
Join two-spirit, disabled, Native artists in a conversation exploring the challenges faced by Native artists and communities with a lack of digital access.
Our 2022 Disability Voting Work
Saturday, September 24, 2022
Disability Rights Florida staff have been very busy this 2022 Primary Election season! We want to share what we've been up to, some resources that you may find useful, and information all about your power as a voter with a disability.
Making Pride More Accessible for Disabled 2LGBTQIA+ Folks
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Happy Pride Month! What a wonderful month to celebrate with you. Before we begin the blog, we want to name that whether you are out or not, figuring out your identity or not, we see you, we appreciate you, and care for you. Your experiences and identities are valid, and we hope to always offer you a safe space at our organization and events to be your true and authentic self.