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Transforming Cancer Care: Listening to Disabled Voices
The project with Help and Care, Wessex Cancer Alliance, and Macmillan Cancer Support highlights the inequities disabled people face within cancer services. Participants shared distressing experiences showing systemic bias and barriers. The research emphasizes the importance of listening to these voices, advocating for dignity, and fostering empathy to ensure equitable treatment for all individuals in…
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My reflections on our cancer service accessibility research
Earlier this week I did my first session with a disability group for our cancer services access study (find out more about that here). Although I cannot share any of the people’s really powerful insights here I would like to share how I felt about the session. The start of the session was very ADHD…
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Alt text and screen readers
Lots of different people use screen readers to translate and process text and images on screens (mostly visually impaired and blind people but also dyslexic people. I use one as I have trouble reading long text on screens). Emojis Many of these screen readers can translate emojis, but some older ones cannot. There can also…