We don't even have the darn ADA reporting system for discrimination against disabled people, acknowledging that some disabled can't use telephone based communication & demanding phone # s to "call back for more information"&such inaccessible measures are all the way through.

All of the systems that are most needed are the least accessible & mostly the reverse is also true. Until the accessibility problems are solved, nothing will really change either.

Agreed! I am currently writing my 36 mass-market technology book on technology and the subject is accessibility. I had my first travel since 2016 at the beginning of this month to present an opening Keynote for austin-based nonprofit @knowbility we have so so much work to do

My spouse & I just keep crashing basically into these issues- ith our various medical conditions&limits. I can read & note take fully to summarize a 5,000 + page omnibus bill in 3hrs but I keep getting competency queries over what amount to requests for reasonable accommodations.

Stories such as you just told me leave me speechless and I am one of the most talkative people on the planet LOL well I am committed despite very bad medical conditions to do my best and not giving in not till it's over for good. there isn't anybody coming to save us.

I don't really see why they can't just use emails instead, as just for appointments, including to pickup lab results- wouldn't even need encryption.

Legally they can so I don't understand why they're not doing it other than laziness or funding which in most cases is not usually realistic because I've seen it done time and again they do have terrible security and other issues that need addressing as well but I am with you.

Irony is all the medical clinics, I've been to for the past decade with this problem, have had websites & patient portals, so I really don't view it as more than an ableist laziness factor on why they won't just activate & use email systems from said patient portals. Most other>>

businesses likewise I've found via their websites, hence my great anger over it. If it really seemed like an actual problem at their end- then I'd be somewhat flexible, but after the mask nonsense(I've asthma&can't wear them safely)I've stopped going in person to schedule visits.