Tag: accessibility
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Grant Application Questions and Answers
Here are our answers to the questions on a grant we recently applied for. History When did your group come together and why? Share major accomplishments and tell us about your recent activities, successes, and learning opportunities. Stimpunks was created to forge the way for educational inclusion and to give our community the means to…
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What We Learned About Virtual Conferences at Virtual Pride
Virtual Pride was awesome. COVID is still a mass disabling event, especially for our vulnerable population. A virtual conference serving our community was very needed. Calling Up Justice and One Free Community produced another awesome Accessible Virtual Pride August 31 and Sept 1. We gathered to celebrate LGBTQAI2S+ and Disabled community in safe and accessible circumstances.…
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An Inclusive Conference Model for Our Times
I am presenting virtually at UDL Con about our Virtual First approach to the affordances of Discord as they relate to Conference to Restore Humanity. Between now and, say, CTRH at the end of July, can you send me specifics I can relay to attendees of the UDL Con event for how CTRH works for…
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The Inclusive Power of the Dimmer Switch
The “Alternative spaces” section of “Multiple Multisensory Rooms: Myth Busting the Magic” offers guidance on creating sensory spaces on any budget. A striking similarity in these books and studies about accommodating the senses is the power of the dimmer switch. One of the most powerful features of a multisensory room is the ability to control…
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Playpen Sans and Accessibility
Does Playpen Sans capture the accessibility benefits of Comic Sans? If so, this feels like the casual handwriting font we’ve been needing. It combines “the aesthetic form of something made by hand and the digital function of a professional typeface.” The Playpen Sans font family by Veronika Burian, Laura Meseguer, and José Scaglione, excels at…
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The Lack of Listening in Healthcare
Our allies at Human Restoration Project shared the efforts of their friends at Cortico on “human listening” and “community listening”. I’m here for human listening and community listening and participatory research. As I dive back into the medical model for another round of treatment, I again profoundly feel the lack of listening and the weight…
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Lunch & Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire movie in Bee Cave
Who: Members of the Dripping Springs Friendship Club Lunch ~ All Star Burger @ Noon (yes, 12 PM) Movie ~ Cinemark: starts @ 1:25 PM The movie is rated PG-13 and it’s 1 hour and 55 minutes long. Please let Norah know if you’d like to attend, if you have not already done so previously.…
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Creating Cavendish Space on a Budget
Cavendish Space: psychologically and sensory safe spaces suited to zone work, flow states, intermittent collaboration, and collaborative niche construction. Cavendish Space – Stimpunks Foundation Our advocacy for Cavendish Space and caves, campfires, and watering holes, prompts questions of how to create Cavendish Space on a budget and in one room. A book we highly recommend…
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Contextual Computing, Workflow Thinking, and the Future of Text
I consider text to be an indispensable part of our societies, no matter where situated on our planet. The potential permanence of the written record is vital to our recall of the past and to our ability to communicate with the future. Vinton G. Cerf, Foreword, The Future of Text We need to become better…
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“A Year with Frog and Toad” Musical
Date: Saturday 05/11/2024 Time: 2 PM CST is when the performance begins Location: The Kleberg Stage (at Zach Theatre) Address: 1421 West Riverside Drive Austin, TX 78704 Group: Dripping Springs Friendship Club ~ Tickets have been purchased for all group members that checked “yes” on the previous poll indicating availability and interest in attending this…
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You don’t want to make communication an elite thing.
You don’t want to make communication an elite thing. And I think that’s really a lot of what punk was about — a hands on, do what you want, of the people type of a thing. Anita Smith, Fifth Column, Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution We agree. That quote ties together our love of…
