I really expect nobody to read all this, as it's gonna get very long! Just posted this video about the comments on another video I posted. Then I DID respond to one comment... 😁🤷♀️
...When I've purposely NOT read them and have been relishing saving that read for part of a large project about #Ableism and #AbleistBritain, which will run across several websites.
I mustn't read any more just yet. 🤓😁
The comment I accidentally saw in YT Studio (and then replied to) says something incorrect about #voting, UK #pollingstations and #disabilities.
To make things clear to anyone who might make it to the end of this post, here's a quote from the UK's Electoral Commission:
'Local authorities have a duty to review the accessibility of all polling places to disabled voters and ensure that every polling place, and prospective polling place, for which it is responsible is accessible to disabled voters ‘so far as is reasonable and practicable’.
According to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission the duty to make reasonable adjustments comprises three requirements.
For service providers and those exercising public functions, these requirements are:
Where a provision, criterion or practice puts disabled people at a substantial disadvantage compared with those who are not disabled, to take reasonable steps to avoid that disadvantage.
Where a physical feature puts disabled people at a substantial disadvantage compared with people who are not disabled to avoid that disadvantage or adopt a reasonable alternative method of providing the service or exercising the function.
Where not providing an auxiliary aid, for example a ramp for wheelchair user1 , puts disabled people at a substantial disadvantage compared with people who are not disabled, to provide that auxiliary aid.
Access to the polling station is still a barrier to some disabled people who want to cast their vote in person. Some of the main physical access issues which should be considered as part of a review are:
polling places and stations with steps into the entrance, or otherwise inaccessible
narrow doorways and corridors
lack of space within the polling place that did not enable motorised wheelchair manoeuvrability
lack of space and secrecy for the elector and their companion to discuss the elector’s choice of vote
lack of low level polling booths or booths/tables that didn’t provide disabled voters with confidence that they could cast their vote in secrecy as they were positioned close to the polling station staff
a lack of chairs to enable people to rest
a lack of a clear display of guidance or aids (such as tactile voting devices) to enable people to feel confident about the process
inadequate lighting
The Elections Act 2022 provides a duty for ROs to provide each polling station with such equipment as it is reasonable to provide for the purposes of enabling, or making it easier for, relevant persons to vote independently and in secret2 . The review should therefore include consideration of whether the building can accommodate the equipment you will provide to support disabled voters.'
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I really expect nobody to read all this, as it's gonna get very long! Just posted this video about the comments on another video I posted. Then I DID respond to one comment...
😁🤷♀️
...When I've purposely NOT read them and have been relishing saving that read for part of a large project about #Ableism and #AbleistBritain, which will run across several websites.
I mustn't read any more just yet.
🤓😁
The comment I accidentally saw in YT Studio (and then replied to) says something incorrect about #voting, UK #pollingstations and #disabilities.
To make things clear to anyone who might make it to the end of this post, here's a quote from the UK's Electoral Commission:
'Local authorities have a duty to review the accessibility of all polling places to disabled voters and ensure that every polling place, and prospective polling place, for which it is responsible is accessible to disabled voters ‘so far as is reasonable and practicable’.
According to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission the duty to make reasonable adjustments comprises three requirements.
For service providers and those exercising public functions, these requirements are:
Where a provision, criterion or practice puts disabled people at a substantial disadvantage compared with those who are not disabled, to take reasonable steps to avoid that disadvantage.
Where a physical feature puts disabled people at a substantial disadvantage compared with people who are not disabled to avoid that disadvantage or adopt a reasonable alternative method of providing the service or exercising the function.
Where not providing an auxiliary aid, for example a ramp for wheelchair user1 , puts disabled people at a substantial disadvantage compared with people who are not disabled, to provide that auxiliary aid.
Access to the polling station is still a barrier to some disabled people who want to cast their vote in person. Some of the main physical access issues which should be considered as part of a review are:
polling places and stations with steps into the entrance, or otherwise inaccessible
narrow doorways and corridors
lack of space within the polling place that did not enable motorised wheelchair manoeuvrability
lack of space and secrecy for the elector and their companion to discuss the elector’s choice of vote
lack of low level polling booths or booths/tables that didn’t provide disabled voters with confidence that they could cast their vote in secrecy as they were positioned close to the polling station staff
a lack of chairs to enable people to rest
a lack of a clear display of guidance or aids (such as tactile voting devices) to enable people to feel confident about the process
inadequate lighting
The Elections Act 2022 provides a duty for ROs to provide each polling station with such equipment as it is reasonable to provide for the purposes of enabling, or making it easier for, relevant persons to vote independently and in secret2 . The review should therefore include consideration of whether the building can accommodate the equipment you will provide to support disabled voters.'
#YouDontLookDisabled
#YDLD
#YouSeeUs
#ysuTribe
#WeSeeYou
#IgnoranceIsNoExcuse
#Discrimination
#InstitutionalAbuse
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