" ... she shouldn't really have to get out. Yes, it's difficult, but it isn't insurmountable."
Reasonable Accommodation refers to laws that prohibit discrimination against individuals on the basis of their handicaps or disabilities and requires employers, landlords, business owners, houses of worship, and other places accessible to the public or serving citizens to make modifications and adjustments (whether structural, procedural, or both) so as to accommodate someone with a mental or physical disability and allow them the same reasonable access to employment, housing, restaurants, churches, businesses, facilities, etc. as everyone else.
These laws protect the disabled from being rejected and denied participation in society on the basis of their disabilities. Usually we see these laws in place where a church or restaurant gets forced to build a wheelchair ramp, or elevators in an apartment complex must have buttons in Braille, or an employer must make allowances for an employee with bipolar disorder to pursue care and maintenance of his mental health.
It would be interesting to research whether any such laws have been developed concerning access to online communities. The 508 compliance initiatives might form a starting point but this really only covers accessibility issues with regard to Federal information provided in an electronic format. Moriah bes thinking in particular, rather, of bringing more 3-d world compliance regulations to bear upon online communities which currently function under a set of rules designed to function only in a cookie-cutter conformity world where everyone parses reality and communication precisely alike -- and such a world simply does not exist to begin with, disabilities or none.
Sometimes it wonders whether people will one day have to engage attorneys acquainted with the finer points of law concerning reasonable accomodation to fight such battles. Thinking of its own difficulties, while the secular world likely would not comprehend the matter of Moriah being inhabited, doubtless it would, even based solely on such a self-disclosure, prove itself eager to retrofit daimonizomai with any one of a number of interesting psychiatric diagnoses, all of which would naturally be protected by law against matters of discrimination and failure to provide reasonable accomodation.
Moriah hopes things will never actually come to having to engage an attorney, though. While it has the resources to do so, right now it really just does not need the added stress in its life. Say nothing of the publicity.
-- Gail Kansky, President, National CFIDS Foundation, in this article.
Reasonable Accommodation refers to laws that prohibit discrimination against individuals on the basis of their handicaps or disabilities and requires employers, landlords, business owners, houses of worship, and other places accessible to the public or serving citizens to make modifications and adjustments (whether structural, procedural, or both) so as to accommodate someone with a mental or physical disability and allow them the same reasonable access to employment, housing, restaurants, churches, businesses, facilities, etc. as everyone else.
These laws protect the disabled from being rejected and denied participation in society on the basis of their disabilities. Usually we see these laws in place where a church or restaurant gets forced to build a wheelchair ramp, or elevators in an apartment complex must have buttons in Braille, or an employer must make allowances for an employee with bipolar disorder to pursue care and maintenance of his mental health.
It would be interesting to research whether any such laws have been developed concerning access to online communities. The 508 compliance initiatives might form a starting point but this really only covers accessibility issues with regard to Federal information provided in an electronic format. Moriah bes thinking in particular, rather, of bringing more 3-d world compliance regulations to bear upon online communities which currently function under a set of rules designed to function only in a cookie-cutter conformity world where everyone parses reality and communication precisely alike -- and such a world simply does not exist to begin with, disabilities or none.
Sometimes it wonders whether people will one day have to engage attorneys acquainted with the finer points of law concerning reasonable accomodation to fight such battles. Thinking of its own difficulties, while the secular world likely would not comprehend the matter of Moriah being inhabited, doubtless it would, even based solely on such a self-disclosure, prove itself eager to retrofit daimonizomai with any one of a number of interesting psychiatric diagnoses, all of which would naturally be protected by law against matters of discrimination and failure to provide reasonable accomodation.
Moriah hopes things will never actually come to having to engage an attorney, though. While it has the resources to do so, right now it really just does not need the added stress in its life. Say nothing of the publicity.
