i'm fucking livid that we're halfway into the second week of the quarter and they failed to notify at least one of my instructors that I was requesting synchronous (i.e. real time, normal course schedule) remote participation accomodations until YESTERDAY. I had a meeting with them on DECEMBER 15TH, and my first email about this was sent December 3rd. They have no goddamn excuse when the medical documentation directly requesting accommodations, a redundant step they for some reason required, was directly delivered on Dec 31, and then waited until January 7th to notify me that they denied the accomodations because the doctors' office requested a longer period for the accommodations than I did (illegal reason to deny them). I gave them updated documentation the same day and they were approved the next day; at this point I had already missed three days worth of classes and independently contacted all of my instructors, and it was not until this point where they even started reaching out to my professors to CHECK IF IT WAS POSSIBLE to do remote participation. They didn't even START ASKING until two days after they should have been implemented. I am fucking livid.

It *is* an accessibility problem.

And a very widespread one.

Feeling a little tired of non-disabled people, whose reaction to learning about assistive technology used by us disabled folks is among the lines of, “Wait, disabled people can’t do X? Disabled people actually NEED to use this freakish technology I’ve never heard of because the regular technology everyone else uses doesn’t work for them? Gosh, it never occurred to me that NOT ALL HUMAN BEINGS ARE THE SAME! It never occurred to me that just because a particular warning system works perfectly fine for me that not everyone might benefit equally!”