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Seating
Hello everyone, I sincerely hope that you’re all safe and well? Like a lot of people, I have been staying in, but every now and again, I need out, just for a little while, in order to help keep me from going stir crazy. But, I understand that the priority is on being safe, but my problem is that I use crutches to help get…
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New ITV quiz show - Looking for contestants
Hosted by
comedian Lee Mack, The 1% Club is a brand-new ITV1 entertainment quiz show like
no other. We aren't looking
for a traditional studio audience, we are looking for 100 people to participate
in the quiz with the potential of winning up £100,000! The questions in
the quiz are brainteasers, not general knowledge - so…
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Hotel Adivce
Hello, My name is bekah. I am using this forum to get some advice from the community. I work in a hotel and we are looking at ways we can improve guests with a disability's experience to ensure the stay is as comfortable and enjoyable as possible. Here are the questions: 1) What do you feel like is missing when you go to a…
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Disability online survey
Hey everyone I hope you are all having a great day. I am currently a student in year 10 approaching my GCSEs working a project to design a product which help people with disabilities. Currently I am thinking of making a product that will especially help people who use wheelchairs. I have a link to form below consisting of…
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Looking for Work With A Disability Comments for Online Article
Hi all, I'm doing an article for an online magazine, The Everyday, on looking for work with a disability. I'm registered disabled with complex partial epilepsy. It doesn't affect my life too much but I was unable to work in a full-time job before I was diagnosed so my CV doesn't flow as smoothly as some others. I have been…
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Views on climate change?
Hi! My name's Kiri, I'm 20, and I'm a care worker for children and young people with disabilities as well as an English student and climate justice activist. The intersection between climate justice and disability seems really under-researched. I'm planning an article on this issue, and would love to hear any of your views…
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Would a software that helps complete your sentences be useful?
Hello everyone, I hope you are keeping well and safe. My team and I are developing a predictive text teleprompter app that can help people have more fluent spoken conversations when they are struggling to find the right words to say. As you are a speech and language adviser, we want to prioritise your thoughts and opinions…
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Hi, my name is Susanna - I'd love to talk shopping with you!
Hi everyone, I'd really like to get your insights and thoughts around your experiences of shopping and retail as a whole. I'm aware that there are many mobility shops which I have mixed feelings about. They offer solutions but I, personally, find them uninspiring and outdated. I'd also like to understand how your…
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Meet Santa this Christmas
Scope are delighted to be working with Virgin Media to increase the accessibility of their grotto. They're giving 50 disabled families, and those shielding, the chance to enjoy a one-to-one video chat with Santa, live from his grotto in the North Pole. It’s free to enter, and disabled families only compete with other…
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Hi, my name is Martindougan11! Newsround BBC shout out
Hello everyone :) My name is Martin and I am a journalist at the BBC. I work on Newsound, the news programme for kids. At the moment I am working on a story: How young disabled kids have been impacted by the Covid crisis! Our core audience are 7-13 year olds, give or take. I'm reaching out to see if anyone within that…
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Can you help with a research request from the UN?
We’re
helping a health researcher compile research for the OHCR which is the United
Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner The researcher is looking into the impact of the pandemic on disabled people and would like to
speak to one to two people who have experienced issues since it began with one
or more of…
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Does limited hand grip/hand pain effect your ability to carry heavy oven dishes?
Do you find it painful or difficult to move heavy, hot items between the oven and kitchen counter, especially when wearing oven gloves? If you have a minute please could you fill in this quick survey, as it would be really useful for my university work! Thanks. :) https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/9K8TK8B
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United Against Workplace Bullying Conference next week.
Its my pleasing duty to announce the event next week United Against Workplace Bullying Conference, with many speakers from all sectors and legal professionals, many people including myself have faced workplace bullying because of disability, in my case autism and mental health and its positive to see this being covered in…
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ME updated guidelines!
I'm so happy to find out that NICE has decided not to recommend graded exercise therapy or any type of exercise for the treatment of ME! Also included is that CBT is not to be offered as a cure. https://www.actionforme.org.uk/news/draft-nice-guideline-for-me-have-your-say/
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Would anyone want to take part /be featured in a calendar about invisible illnesses
I am looking for people with invisible illnesses physical or mental to take part /feature in a invisible illnesses /chronic illness calendar and share their story on my social media platform if you are interested please comment below ? #letyourvoicebeheard #invisiblenotdismissible Go to my Instagram page Removed by…
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School websites... are they user friendly?
Hello everyone. I hope it's okay to post this on here. I'm Brandon, an in-house web manager for a trust that has 30 schools, and I am writing a report on how I can improve our school websites for accessibility. I really want my school websites to lead the way in usability for accessible users. It would be great to know…
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Do you have any thoughts on countryside tourism access?
Hello! I am a student at Surrey University. I am doing a consultancy project for Kent Council, in particular improving the accessibility and potential marketing strategies for disabled needs. They have already proposed to implement a changing places toilet at one of their country parks. However, if you have a disability or…
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College Public Transport Capacity Survey
Dear whomever it may concern, I am writing on behalf of a group of 3rd year TCD Mechanical and Manufacturing engineers. For a college project we have decided to research on overcrowding in public transport and attempt to create something to help avoid this. The survey should take no longer than 5 minutes. Any and all…
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Do you live in a high rise building? Tell us by the 4th November
Scope are looking for storytellers who live in a high rise building, to talk to BBC
Online about the need for emergency evacuation plans, in light of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Here's what BBC online are looking for: If you're in this situation, and you'd like to make your voice heard, please do one of the below by the…
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Dissertation Help.
To whom this may concern, I am currently in my Third year at Cardiff University and am therefore currently writing my dissertation. My question is titled COVID-19: The Beginning of the End of Cash? An Evaluation of a possible Cashless Society in the UK in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak and has a section that focuses…
