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Grad Student in MS Assistive Tech and Human Services, work in #healthcare. #accessibility, #disability, #art, #gamedev, #UX, and sometimes #cats. He/him
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It's not that complicated.

It's insane that washrooms became a political tool to grow unfounded fear and hate.

🏳️‍⚧️⚧️♿️🦮👨🏽‍🦯

#transrights #accessibility #disability
Photo of bathroom door saying "Washroom", "Trans People Welcome", icons of person, wheelchair, and braille.
February 23, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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EaZyHold silicone grips are a clever and helpful design for any limited hand function, and featured in Sensory Laine, an online marketplace that highlights makers of “diverse, inclusive, and adaptive products."

#accessibility #disabilities #AT
Banner image with text "5 Businesses & Non-Profits that support Inclusion & Accessibility Every Month." Image with "Celebrating Disability Pride Month" and two kids making heart stamps and crafts at a table. One may be in a wheelchair or support.
January 28, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Mastermind

#GameChallenge
#Games
#GameDev
Photo of brown plastic game Mastermind. Shows hidden code of colored pegs. The player's view is trying different combinations of colors to try and match the secret. Black and white smaller peg give feedback on the guesses.
December 21, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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"With Under the Table, Therrien fuses Alice in Wonderland with the Duchampian tradition of the readymade"

The Broad Museum,
Trip to Los Angeles

#art
Museum sculpture of very large wooden table and chairs with people standing underneath. White, curved cubicle ceiling.
December 20, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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Back pathway at the Disney Concert Hall, with flower petal water sculpure.

Downtown, Los Angeles.

#art #sculpture #disney
Photo of path with tree, flower petal sculputite, shiny metal walls, oak tree, blue sky with clouds
December 20, 2024 at 12:40 AM
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Tactile architecture is a design approach that focuses on how the physical characteristics and textures of materials can affect the user experience.

Walt Disney Concert hall uses texture in the concrete for blind and low vision detection.

#accessibility #architecture #disney
Photo of walkway between shiny, curved metal walls. Grooved textures near the wall allow people to sense they are approaching a barrier.
December 20, 2024 at 12:36 AM
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Playing tourist at the site of LA28 Paralympic Games.

The Games uses 100% existing and temporary venues with plans to reuse or return temporary and overlay materials to their natural state, and will work towards hosting the first “Energy Positive Games”

www.paralympic.org/la-2028

#olympics #LA
Photo of large, empty stadium, red seats, blue sky, field with American football markings.
December 19, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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Brain rebooting
Two cappuchinos from above. Each had a decorative flower pattern swirl.
December 19, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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George Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts

Once completed, the museum will hold all forms of visual storytelling, including painting, photography, sculpture, illustration, comic art, performance, and video.

Scheduled to open 2026.

Los Angeles, California

#StarWars #Museums #Art
Photo of museum building under construction. The building is shaped like a space ship with curves. Pathway with gravel on the sides. Light pole with. Blue sky with whisps of clouds.
December 17, 2024 at 1:20 PM
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Electric scooter rentals can provide flexible transportation.

However, they are often left blocking sidewalks, making it difficult to navigate for wheelchairs, strollers, blind, and others.

Educating about leaving walkable paths open is important.

#accessibility #disability
Photo of brick sidewalk next to street, with 3 electric scooters that are left blocking the path.
December 17, 2024 at 1:09 PM
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Ramps can be added to paths with stairs. These benefit wheelchairs, child strollers, moving equipment, and others.

In this case, a metal ramp is added to a rose garden park path in Los Angeles.

#accessibility
Photo of a metal wheelchair ramp that has been added to path of concrete steps. A water fountain in the background and building with pyramid roof. Rose gardens on the sides. Clear blue sky.
December 17, 2024 at 1:01 PM
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The original title was "The Psychology of Everyday Things." But bookstores often shelved it in the wrong section, sometimes under self-help, so it was renamed.

Even a book on design may miss considering and testing placement, context, and interpretation.

And be careful pouring 🫖

#books #design
Book cover, The Design of Everyday Things, by Don Norman. Shows a red shiny tea kettle with the pout incorrectly places on the same side as the handle. Steam emerges from the spout. A bright yellow background.
December 14, 2024 at 8:19 AM
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Seattle has hills of up to 20% incline and unpaved sections.

The University of Washington created a app that lets you map wheelchair, cane, walker routes to find the easiest, safest paths.

www.accessmap.app
github.com/accessmap

#Accessibility #UrbanPlanning
#Maps
Screen of map app, accessmap.app, search bar, Seattle WA, Options for Wheelchair, Powered, Cane, a map of downtown, Speed at Incline %, zoom, and other navigation.
December 14, 2024 at 8:05 AM
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Photo taken on a walk. Words say:

"Are you sure, sweetheart,
That you want to be well?

Just so you're sure, & ready to be healed.

Cause wholeness is no trifling manner.

A lot of weight when you're well."

Under the roofline reads @ jessxsnow teezeng 2019

#poetry #architecture #disability
Photo of the side of house with a decorative mural. A blue sky background, two women touching hands. The left shaped by many generations of faces and constellations. The right formed by branches, leaves, and poppies. Their hands meet and touch in the middle, a plant growing in between their contact. Windows, a ramp, a wheelchair parking sign. Plants and parking lot on a sunny day.
December 12, 2024 at 8:14 AM
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Appreciating a breathtaking space at a local college.

Amazing ocean overlook, glass panels, large open spaces, and sunlight.

Stumbled into finding a calming, beautiful open place to study and work.

#architecture #light #nature
Photo inside a building with high ceilings, columns, and large glass windows. A large, decorative compass design on the floor, sunlike cascading in. Overlooking cliffs, monterrey pines, and eucalyptis and the ocean.
December 9, 2024 at 9:58 PM
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A "nosey" cup lowers one side of the rim.

This makes it easier for some to drink, allowing their nose to clear the cup and placing closer to the face.

Useful in dysphagia, parkinson's, elderly or for motor control. This one is subtle but some cups drop one side a lot. Cheers!

#accessibility
Cup of coffee or tea. Cup is clear plastic with a wide handle and one side of the top lip is lowered to make drinking easier.
December 8, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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Approach design, games or otherwise, considering different categories for accessibility.

leahybaker.com/gamesaccessi...
Slide entitled "The Games Accessibility Categories" Motor, Controls and Mobility. Hearing, Hard of Hearing, Deaf, and Auditory Processing. Vision, Sights, Colors, Light, and Displays. Cognitive, Thoughts, Memory, and Processing Speed. Speech, Voice Chat and Speech Recognition. And lots of overlap. Logo for NZGDC.
December 8, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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Makes my 💙 smile
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Orange tabby kitty with light green eyes. Sitting on a yellow and white bath towel, guarding her white string. A book "Miyazaki World, A Life in Art, by Susan Napier" is next to the cat, with a blue abd white sky cover in the shape of the anime director.
December 8, 2024 at 4:03 AM
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"Colors have the capacity to change our respiration, our blood pressure, even our body temperature."
Photo of book cover, "Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us" by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross. White text in background of multicolor brush strokes in feather-like patterns. On the book sits an orange, 3D printed greenhouse model framed building and small plant.
December 4, 2024 at 11:13 AM
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What cup do you like to use?

One award winning cup design for the elderly, arthritis, parkinson's and visual impairments.

www.jamesdysonaward.org/2017/project...
Diagram of a cup design. Heading reads "The final design has a plastic body and lid, wooden dowel and base with a steel weight and a rubber bottom. The form works functionally while considering the users" Diagram shows "Spill proof lid", "Rounded Rim, a curved outward rim that acts as a spout for east pouring and comfort when drinking", "Curbed waist helps grip while drinking", "Wooden base", "Metal weight bottom that improved tremor for Parkinson's" and a "Rubber" bottom.
December 2, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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Kitty and cables.
#cats #catsofbluesky
Orange tabby kitty with green eyes, standing on the back edge of black computer desk. Cords and cables behind. Tissue box with pink flowers and green leaves. Multicolor file folders in container on the floor. Lamp, desk and binders in the background.
December 2, 2024 at 6:21 AM
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Cozy scene of a gray stone fireplace, with a maple wooden mantel, warmly burning, smoldering, pyramid stacked logs with bright high flames casting orange light and warmth. In front, a deep red, shiny reflective ceramic cup, filled with marshmallow-less homemade hot cocoa, sat down on the floor, wrapped lovingly around by a wool white blanket, with gray streaks. The hot, blazing fire, crackling behind.
December 2, 2024 at 5:59 AM
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Yes, he did Starry Night. My attempt in acrylics of a lesser known Van Gough of "Skull of a Skeleton smoking a Cigarette"

The original "was most likely painted in the winter of 1885–86 as a satirical comment on conservative academic practices." wikipedia

#art #acrylics
Arcylic painting adapted from Van Gough. Skull of skeleton and top of arms and rib cage from partial side view. Skeleton is smoking a cigarette with smoke wafting from it. Black background.
December 1, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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Long time ago. In California. Palmdale Estates. They closed 😢 But we did mix outdoor and indoor in the back.
Photo of tudor style castle-cottage house, brown roof, brown window trims, small tower spire. Green grass and driveway out front. Trees and bushes around the front and sides. Pathway to the back.
November 30, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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"Knowledge is personal. It’s going to impact you individually, and may change your values, whether you realize it or not. This is especially important for teaching people about #accessibility, #disability, #ableism, and #oppression. It’s why teaching these topics can be so difficult." 1 of 3
Book cover, entitled "The Accessibility Operations Guidebook", "To making accessibility work more sustainable" by Devon Persing. Green cover, white text. Series of process arrows at the bottom in red, orange, yellow, light green, light blue and purple. Author's name has yellow drawn outline with folded corner.
November 30, 2024 at 4:25 PM