Solving problems of inclusion and equalitySuperhero Cyborgs I’ve always looked up to my sister. She’s one of the strongest and most capable people I know. She was born without most of her right hand. I’ve not spent a tremendous amount of my life thinking about it, to be honest, since she’s the type of person who tends to be good […]
Nine months ago I started working with Kate McCallum on a project that was pretty important to both of us. You will remember Kate from showing us how to hack a switch and from giving us a guide to creating a tactile overlay. Some years ago Kate built a page-set called CommuniKate for her little […]
When you Google the proverb ‘Necessity is the mother of invention’ it is attributed to everyone from Plato to Einstein. But here is what I have discovered, Britain is full of amazing entrepreneurs who when faced with a daily problem simply invent a solution to make life easier. The necessity of invention becomes even […]
So this weekend I was at Mozfest, which was awesome and is a whole year’s worth of posts on it’s own. Of the very many fascinating people I spoke to there were quite a few interested in transparency, and a good number working to improve Freedom of Information legislation. Now as you all know, I’m […]
Quick note for readers. I think it’s important that I consider my back catalogue of posts to be part of the site and that they get maintained, looked after and followed up on. So each Friday I’ll be picking a post I did from that week last year, and see if my opinions have changed, […]
Today we finish up my five part series interviewing the Disability spokespeople from the UK political parties. This final interview is with Mark Harper, Minister of State for Disabled People, and thus pretty far up the ladder. Mark became the Minister on 15th July 2014 having been in parliament since 2005. JR: You’ve very recently […]
Third in our set of four political interviews Is Kate Green Member of Parliament for Stretford and Urmston and Shadow Minister for Disabilities. I’m keeping to a rule of ‘NO editorialising’ on these interviews so I’ll let the Q&A do the talking. I’m just back from a very international meeting of disability bloggers and it […]
Second in our set of four political interviews Is Stephen Lloyd the MP for Eastbourne and member of the Liberal Democrats… As with UKIP, the process of getting hold of the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson was somewhat confusing… Them: “Hello, Liberal Democrat press office.” Me: Hello, my name is Joe Reddington and I run a disability […]
We kick off our set of four political interviews with Cllr Star Etheridge, disability spokesman for UKIP, I spent some time in the last post being impressed with Star’s general efficiency and so today all I have to do is introduce her. Star is a solicitor who represents the Coseley East Ward in the West […]
This is the first post in a five part series. The next post will be an interview with Cllr Star Etheridge who is the Disability Spokesman* for UKIP and next Monday’s will be an interview with Stephen Lloyd, MP for Eastbourne and Willingdon representing the liberal democrats. On that Wednesday, we’ll have Kate Green, MP for […]