The thing is, pre-cut veg *is* for lazy people. Laziness isn’t a crime. It’s also convenient for busy parents and folks working long hours.

Accessibility is for everyone.
It is extremely rare that something accessible to a disabled person makes things *less* accessible for the non-disabled.

I've heard similar arguments for precooked hard boiled eggs, but I've had such trouble monitoring how they're cooked and conflicting information on how to cook them and then properly peeling, that it's just easier to outsource it to professionals doing it better in bulk than I could

there's no shame these days against people buying store bought mass produced clothing instead of making your own either

Got another one for you. Buffets? The single least accessible means of providing food to a large number of people.

My perspective, as a cane-user: I am already one-handed. So immediately, I have the problem: how do I hold my plate, while also filling my plate? Rarely is there room on the buffet for a plate to be set down. Almost no one ever thinks to offer assistance to people who have disabilities in using the buffet.

Before I even get to the plate, of course, I have the problem of how they bring people to line up. If, as is often the case, they call it table by table, then I am almost certainly, by random chance, going to end up in a long line waiting to access the buffet. Standing is painful to me, even more so than walking.

So I'm exhausted and sore. I arrive at the buffet. I get a plate and cutlery, which somehow I manage to carry in one hand. I have to balance the plate on my cane-arm while trying to pile food on it with my non-dominant hand.

Moving down the buffet, I come to the dessert tables! Hurrah! Only the only way to get a dessert is to have...another plate!

So I get no dessert, because I don't have a free hand to get it with.

And that's just one person's disability. Wheelchair user? Reaching those bowls up high on the table is going to be hard. Visually impaired? How do you know what you're putting on your plate? What if there's something in it you're allergic to? Gonna read the card maybe?

Missing an upper limb? See above re: being effectively one-handed. Palsied hands? Good luck. And so on, and so on, and so on.

And yet, over and over, I go to conferences, ostensibly social justice-focused affairs, and *every time* they pick the cheapest option, and make no effort to accommodate people for whom the cheap option is the no-food option.

#Disability #DisabilityPrideMonth

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How about something basic... transportation.

I'm in a power chair. Not all cab co's have wheelchair accessible vans. If I'm lucky enough to find an accessible cab, I get to pay out the *ss to go anywhere because it's a special vehicle request.

I could ride my chair to my doc's office, but there's ONE driveway that's SO steep I can't go over it without risking tipping over. Same for the pharmacy, except it's a sidewalk gap that would force me into traffic.