Work to change the law for your residential home based business then, or fundraise. Like we disabled people have to do, to defend our rights to be in society, shop, work, and use transit while disabled -- and like so many other wheelchair users I know have to do just to get the wheels to get out of their own house. Sorry about your barn, but you seem oddly out to mess with fundamental access for other people because you need to do $3K worth of renovation, and that seems odd to me.
I've successfully done this as well in a smaller town. City Hall engineers sat down with me and looked at accessible routes to school, bus/train station, and the grocery store. They built 7 curb cuts; it cost the city 35K. Every time I saw someone else using those crossings for years afterwards it made me super happy. And, I could take my kid to school without going in the street, in the dark, in the rain... I don't think this works every time but it is definitely worth asking. Another interesting point I found out while going through this process, was that it takes some work for the city to find out who is responsible for particular streets and intersections (It might be a local or state transit agency rather than the city).
There are times when we update users as fast as possible, but that's fairly rare and happens only when there's an exploit disclosed in public (or one definitely being used). So in addition to the security ratings used by Mozilla (defined here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security_Severity_Ratings) there are also "incidents" that result in a very fast release to all users (i.e. "chemspill").
We have to weigh the potential risks against the potential benefits of a quick rollout and try to come to a balanced decision. If we see a problem from feedback from early installs, then we have a chance to quickly patch it and re-release, sometimes within one day. Staged rollout is fairly standard in the industry. (Speaking as a Firefox release manager)
I'm a placard holder and I think this article is full of horrible ideas. The fee, the weird limitations on metered parking use for people with particular disabilities or impairments, but most of all the way the article uncritically invites people to scrutinize placard holders and try to tell by looking at them if they are "really disabled" or not. With the existing laws, placards must be renewed every 2 years. If the DMV is issuing renewals to dead people as the article claims, that seems fixable without screwing the rest of us over.
Stable Firefox will still update around every six weeks, the same as before.
You could also think of the change like this: if you report a bug in the current release version, and someone fixes that bug in Nightly, the fix will end up in a new release 6 weeks faster than before.
We have always had the potential to move that fast, but you can think of the difference here for features as: rather than scrambling to bring features to release faster if they're ready, we can choose to hold some features back for an extra 6 weeks in Nightly, for more development if they need it.
Granularity is pretty good for the Nightly builds, since a new update is normally built and pushed out at least once a day. The mozregression tool is useful for narrowing down when a bug first appeared: http://mozilla.github.io/mozregression/
The song "Are My Hands Clean?" from the 1980s, by Sweet Honey in the Rock, covers this exact subject. It traces the path of the materials used to make a cheap blouse you can buy at Sears from fields to the store. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vv60O2mk10
By the way, the point of tactile paving is usually to indicate a change (like a slope or a step) about to happen, warning of an edge, not a path that you are supposed to follow.
Another thing to look out for in cities (and get people to correct if you can - report to the city, building owners, and so on): Things that stick out at head level that have no indication of their existence at ground level. Cane users would not feel an interruption and so would have no warning before getting cold-cocked right in the face. I notice this a lot where there are dramatic stairways that you can walk underneath. Best to have some sort of railing there.
I noticed this in Beijing in 2007 (I'm a wheelchair user, so I'm looking at the sidewalk a lot). Here's a photo of one of those bumpy yellow paths leading straight to a steep flight of stairs under Tiananmnen Square! I've always thought back to it as a perfect example of things people try to implement in order to help disabled people but that have the opposite effect of help. Anyway, a good example of a well-meant but bad user interface!
It seems possible to put other, not-porn images of people into the hopper and spit out an endless stream of perturbing, semi-pornographic trolling. That will probably happen, despite it being an awful idea, and it could even become commodified.
I agree about HR! What an annoying term. But, unlike "the r-word", which has lots of history of being used as a direct insult and slur meant to be hurtful, "disability" has quite some time of history as use for political organizing and as a political identity. So while I would actually describe myself as having some physical impairments (such as not being able to walk much) I also would say I am disabled, as a social and political identity. No matter if I mean something different by it than people might think as they use the word to describe me, because it is a point of struggle. Hope that makes sense. It is super interesting how and why people shift the meanings of words!
Especially so when it is simple to look up what has been written about these kinds of questions. There is literally a book (quite well known) titled "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria".
But, other people aren't there as your personal learning opportunity. Instead a little time to develop a friendship or working relationship will bear its fruit for everyone.
I don't find it hard to imagine, as there are plenty of privileged white people in the U.S. who barely ever come into contact with black people in a social context. So they just say the first thing that comes into their minds. They feel entitled to start that conversation and treat black people as instant free learning opportunities available any time in any context. It isn't always mean-spirited. It's just vastly ignorant. People can progress beyond it but I think that takes time, listening, education, and learning some personal humility which not everyone has motivation or necessity to develop.
I see "person of color" as a term of alliance against a white supremacist culture. There are many particular difference but the idea is that there are also some commonalities that make alliance and shared analysis valuable.
I would like to think that this is good advice, but I can't truly believe it because in many situations where the power dynamic is unequal, the rewards are greater for one person and the risks mostly go the other way. This decision of how open to be depends on how much risk you can tolerate for your survival (here, survival in a job, or a career or field, but sometimes actual survival.) It isn't necessarily about lying but about how open you are willing to be in a situation.
It's a hard decision to make, whether to tell people your perspective from a marginalized position. They feel bad and don't know what to do with that knowledge, or how to integrate it with their own different experiences. I love the bullet points of advice Makinde gives here for people hearing unfamiliar experiences from their coworkers or friends, to figure out how they can be okay with that discomfort.
What about your ability to refuse to tell law enforcement a password? In the U.S. at least there is some precedent that giving a password could be a self-incriminating act, so you can be protected under the Fifth Amendment. I wonder if biometrics to unlock a device would count as an "act". If not, people could be forced by courts to hand over their passwords.
Sometimes this is about having a different learning style. Some people may absorb information better one on one. Tutoring and mentoring can be super helpful.
Another thing you might consider is that there are class and cultural factors to people's expectations about how you get along in life. Person to person conversation and personal relationships are important resources if you are working class or living in poverty.
There is a flip side to culture that disdains just asking, which is that smart people sometimes scramble to find answers independently to any questions because they don't want to reveal their ignorance on a subject. Sometimes just asking is not lazy, it is efficient and results in better collaboration as other people hear the question and realize they don't know, either, and would like to. Or, if no one knows, then you at least know have that information and can work from there.
Hi. I'm someone's mom, and both of us understand this. When you use mothers as a metonym for people who don't understand technology, think about who you are assuming is your audience, and who are you are excluding and insulting.
It's helpful to have small practical tips on coping and how to be kind to yourself when you are too depressed or ill to get out of bed. Sometimes that self care is more useful than trying to go instantly from 0 to 60, sad to happy. Or, than what Marcus Aurelius is doing, beating himself up emotionally and feeling shame and guilt.
While I like Stoicism, I wish I could go back and time and give Marcus Aurelius a day off!
I think that companies have to make a case for supporting a visa because of not being able to hire someone similarly qualified who is a citizen or permanent resident. And having a formal degree may be part of that equation.