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Cinema owners, shame on you.

Last week, I went to my local Vue cinema to see True Grit. My jaw dropped to the ground when I was asked by an eager young girl for a Cinema Exhibitors Association card, as proof of entitlement to a seat for my companion (without whose help I could not have got in to watch [...]

February 17th, 2011|Categories: Access, Changing attitudes, Empathy, Inclusion|Tags: access, accessible, attitudes, changing attitudes, cinema, companion, disability, empathy, inclusion, inclusive, publicity, vue, wheelchair, wheelchairs|

“Job done. Disabled people are now fully included in society!”

Nearly all of my friends share the view that, since the arrival of the Disability Discrimination Act here in the UK, the quality of life of disabled people has improved no end. The less enlightened ones go on to say that because there’s a ramp into this taxi, or a hearing loop in that bank, [...]

November 5th, 2010|Categories: Changing attitudes, Inclusion|Tags: adapted, changing attitudes, DDA, disability, Disability Discrimination Act, does he take sugar, does she take sugar, inclusion, inclusive, ramps|

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