#Disability is very important aspect of inclusivity.
An #inclusive app is one that is accessible to everyone, particularly when one of the #senses is impaired. 
If your app can be used effectively with just two senses, it is truly #accessible! 
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#NewYork - Services for the UnderServed using #UrbanGardens to target food insecurity
The initiative has been so successful that Services for the UnderServed plans to include gardens in all future developments.
Rob Flaks, Jul 17, 2025
"In a city where food and housing insecurity often go hand in hand, Services for the UnderServed (S:US) is planting solutions for both at the same time.
"At a supportive housing complex in #BedStuy, residents are tending to one of the first urban gardens launched by S:US back in 2011. The garden features edible plants, flowers, and even beehives producing fresh honey, - all maintained by the tenants themselves.
" 'To be able to garden, get your hands dirty—it’s an amazing resource I hope all of our community has access to,' said Mike Hollis, vice president of #FoodInsecurity at S:US.
"The initiative has been so successful that S:US plans to include gardens in all future developments. 'When you have that foundation of #HousingSecurity and #FoodSecurity, it gives people the stability to take the next steps in wellness, employment and personal growth,' Hollis said.
"The Bed-Stuy building, which offers stabilized rent for individuals with disabilities and serious health conditions, is home to 54 residents. For tenant Yussuf Salam, the garden has been life-changing. 'I got into the garden, I went to school—you learn things about yourself,' he said.
"But the gardens are just one of over 30 such properties in the borough, with a total of 1,484 housing units. But their latest project is taking root in #EastNewYork, where the organization is developing #Alafia, one of its largest projects to date.
"Alafia is a multiphased, mixed-use development on a 28.5-acre site in the #SpringCreek area. Once complete, it will include 2,400 units of #AffordableHousing and #SupportiveHousing, a health clinic, community and commercial spaces, manufacturing facilities and over 11 acres of publicly #accessible open space.
"Alafia is currently partially opened with 452 affordable housing units for tenants—many of whom are formerly homeless or living with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
"Those behind the project say projects like these are the size and scope they need to tackle our boroughs housing crisis.
" 'That is such an opportunity for the organization and the borough to expand the work, giving people dignified housing and spaces to grow their own food,' Hollis said.
"Just like in Bed-Stuy, any surplus produce from Alafia’s gardens will be donated to local #CommunityFridges, ensuring that the benefits extend beyond the housing sites themselves."
So who needs *actual* public toilets?
Each study, no matter which city it was from, concluded that actual #PublicToilets are used overwhelmingly by:
- a #parent/ #caregiver with young #children (often using baby strollers)
- #elderly people
- #disabled people
- #unhoused people
… and since basically no one gives much of a rip about the last three on that list, ESPECIALLY unhoused people, there is little political will to ensure #accessible public #toilets are a priority.
A critical point made most clear by #Calgary's #yyc report (complete with maps and photos of site incidents!) is that #HumanWaste is a #biohazard #HazardousWaste, as human diseases can easily pass to others by #feces.
TL;DR: Alas, withholding development of #facilities and #services that would benefit all people in a community, including unhoused people, is a common policy program driven by political optics. And it stinks. 
Vicariously check out more from my gardens walk, yesterday 
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/WNGJ3f2dKHg
An interesting, in-depth look at how #GNOME made its #Calendar application #Accessible.
https://tesk.page/2025/07/25/gnome-calendar-a-new-era-of-accessibility-achieved-in-90-days/
Up on the viewing platform 
The entire gardens & trails around, including the pathway to ocean views is fully #accessible. There are ramped areas all throughout.
When I was in the children's hospital at this property in the 80s, this was the area we used to have big family visitors events.
I used to live in the children's hospital that operated on this huge property for decades. It was my first "home" in Victoria. I was quarantined & didn't see my family much for quite some time & I taught myself English by learning to lipread & ape hospital staff & fellow child patients.
Voici un instrument insolite et #libre, conçu par @vibstra, permettant de percevoir des harmoniques et de la #musique par l'intermédiaire de vibrations. Cela rend le son #accessible aux personnes en situation de #handicap auditif et peut servir aussi lors de séances de relaxation. C'est fascinant !
From the Department for Education DfE Digital, Data and Technology Team - a useful resource on “Guidance and information for how to apply the Government Service Standard to design and build #Accessible, usable and understandable #Services …”
https://apply-the-service-standard.education.gov.uk
Focused on #Educational requirements but a useful resource for any Team looking to apply #ServiceStandards.
The Design102 Team offer advice on use of #Subtitles and #Captions for more #Accessible 
#Video content.
https://design102.blog.gov.uk/2024/11/01/subtitles-and-captions-whats-the-difference/
I recorded a quick demo of the content editing experience on one of the #Drupal sites we created recently. This method provides visual previews without the technical and UX complexity of layout builder (or experience builder) and helps ensure an #accessible page structure by requiring headings for each section.
any suggestion for an #accessible #software to rip DvDs and VCDs? thanks! #Blind #DVD #Ripping
Used an #accessible toilet at work.
It had the standard green "push to open door" button, which opens the door inward when pushed. That's normal.
There was no door-handle at all, so, it's completely impossible to open the door from the inside in a power-cut situation.
Is this common?
soooo ... do we have any #screenReader #accessible PC hardware monitoring tools that ... y'know ... aren't awful? I don't mean CPU/RAM usage, more ... voltages, component temps, etc.
So far stuff I've looked at (speccy, hardwareMonitor) just haven't been great and basically have me saving a text file and ctrl+f-ing my way through it which ... works, but is a little silly if there's a perfectly good UI right there
Does anyone have an #accessible #irc #client for #WindowsXP? Discord, as you can imagine, is proving rather difficult to use, so I'd like to use IRC instead for the communities I'm a part of that have both. Thanks in advance!
Example of something that might be technically #accessible with a keyboard, but in reality is probably unusable: 141 consecutive checkboxes in the tab order. #accessibility
@maxleibman And let's think about how #AI actually does help people. #Blind people, for example, who don't always have a visual interpreter around and/or can't afford to pay for one, can totally pull up an AI to tell us what that can is on our counter, or what the buttons are on our devices, rendering the world more #accessible for us. AI just needs to be handled with more responsibility is all. AI in itself isn't bad, it's just what people are doing with it and how they handle it that are the problem.
A collection of #Design suggestions to make more #Accessible visualizations from Nancy Organ.
https://www.trillianthealth.com/tech-blog/sorry-i-cant-read-your-visualization
#running
Finally !
A very short run with added jeffing.
So far so good.
I feel so much better in myself even after 2.5 km.
First run in a few weeks.
#music First random track 'Paranoid' by Black Sabbath.
#accessible beach garden in the picture.
Enjoy your running.
I released my new game for iOS today. It's called Shift The disks. It's my take on the classic Towers of Hanoi game. Enjoy the game. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shift-the-disks/id6746863384 #blind #puzzle #puzzles #logic #towers_of_hanoi #accessible
