Hacker News with Generative AI: Disability Rights

Airlines Sue to Avoid Consequences for Breaking Disabled Travelers' Wheelchairs (motherjones.com)
Five major airlines—American Airlines, Delta, JetBlue, Southwest, and United—have joined an airline trade association lawsuit to overturn a Department of Transportation rule that forces airlines to treat wheelchair users and their mobility devices with dignity.
Airlines, Disability Rights, Lawsuits, Transportation, Consumer Protection
7 points by awnird 16 days ago | 1 comments
Cabbies Say Cost to Move to Wheelchair-Accessible Cars Is Too High (thecity.nyc)
Taxi medallion owners facing a new deadline for making their vehicles wheelchair accessible by next March say conversion costs could take cabbies off the road.
Transportation, Accessibility, Disability Rights, Business
6 points by PaulHoule 131 days ago | 4 comments
Disability Rights Are Technology Rights (eff.org)
At EFF, our work always begins from the same place: technological self-determination. That’s the right to decide which technology you use, and how you use it. Technological self-determination is important for every technology user, and it’s especially important for users with disabilities.
Disability Rights, Technology, Digital Rights
30 points by hn_acker 135 days ago | 1 comments
Dart: The Disability Attitude Re-Adjustment Tool (2015) (kingqueen.org.uk)
I’ve written a Guide for Disabled People to Sue Service Providers for Disability Discrimination, as Unrepresented Litigants in Person in England. (Otherwise known as DART – the Disability Attitude Readjustment Tool.) Suing isn’t as difficult or risky as it might sound. Given that only the person discriminated against can take action, and legal aid is effectively non-existent, this is now pretty much the only way to enforce one’s legal rights.
Disability Rights, Law, UK, Accessibility, Discrimination
3 points by fanf2 178 days ago | 0 comments