Archive for February, 2012
Is the job centre failing it’s Deaf clients?
If you read the post about Janet (@deafplanet) a Deaf woman who’s benefit was cut for not attending an interview due to inability to contact them by phone (she’s Deaf and has no outgoing phine line to phone by minicom to Text Direct service.) For many d/Deaf people Text Direct is a lifeline offering text to speech operator who will relay the call. DWP routinely fail to offer email or sms numbers as an alternative contact in letters...
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Category Blogs, Digital Tags: benefits, Deaf, Deaf discrimination, DWP, DWP press office, Job Centre Plus
Too high a price for a pint
David Colley wrote the following ‘jokey style’ email to a pub chain yesterday:
After a rather depressing visit to a Wetherspoons pub, I tried to cheer myself up. We all need to remember the bright side of discrimination, after all. Don’t we?
So here’s what I wrote to them….
“Hello,
Today I visited The Five Swans in Newcastle upon Tyne (NE1 7PG) a Wetherspoons pub.
I am a wheelchair user and had significant problems.
The...
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