Poppy Levison

Tactile paving was created to help blind and visually impaired people get around streets safely But implemented in the wrong way, it can create just as many issues as any other design feature So, how can we make tactile paving better? I’ll go first…

So delighted to be a part of this amazing panel!

This is the kind of disabled ingenuity and creative rule-bending that makes my heart sing

Whenever I tweet about Greta Thunberg, I get non-disabled people replying they “find it difficult to see her as disabled.” It’s meant as a compliment but what they’re really saying is: “I equate disability with weakness and failure so can’t see a brilliant woman as disabled.”

Happy to share the launch of Dis, a collective that derived from the Invisible Tales event at the @LFArchitecture and co-founded by myself and James Zatka-Haas!

Latest disability lingo bingo. Nurse just asked me if I can "mobilise". Naturally, my response was "eh?!" She meant stand or walk. Between discussing my "peers" (friends) and "toileting needs" (using the loo), I'm feeling suitably and beautifully 'othered' today 😆

It’s official!!! I’m so proud of our @disordinaryarch and @re_fabricate team winning the @LFArchitecture Co-designing Equity in the Public Realm competition with Seats at the Table. So grateful of the opportunity to work with all of these amazing people! architectsjournal.co.uk/news/lfa-names…

Minister for Disabled People 'not aware of' the Social Model. This is going to go well. tinyl.io/77my More great work by @johnpringdns

@AlexanderSmith @D_Sellwood if you ever need an example of why auto generated captions aren’t good enough 😂

Either YouTube's automated captions are struggling with Mark Drakeford reading the bible in Welsh or his address has taken a surrealist improvisational turn. #RodeoGaddafi #foiegrasGhanaians

@sundaegirl It’s definitely getting better, all the big updates seem to have some improvements. I also had a really productive conversation with Rhino so hopefully there’ll be some improvements there too!

@poppylevison I just noticed InDesign now has scaleable UI! Does this mean it's finally accessible for you?!

Very excited to be at the @NationalTheatre with @poppylevison to finally see @chessmartinez play All Of Us ( 2 years later). It’s a joy that there are so many disabled people here that us ‘normies’ are getting stared at 😂.

🗣️ Say it with us: Disabled toilets are not a store cupboard! If you're just going to use the disabled loo as a place to store clutter, you may as well not have one at all. 🙄 They're only accessible if people can actually use them. 📽️: @ShaniDhanda

Periodic reminder that Orcam is a face-mounted camera priced around $2500 that lets Blind people read print, recognize objects and do other things, all of which can also be done with free apps. Unlike the apps, Orcam has a sales team in the mold of big pharma reps —

Me: Hey, love the work you do! Can you please use alt text/captioning/hold accessible events/etc so disabled people can participate? Organization: Thank you for holding us accountable! We care about disabled people. Organization: *Goes right back to doing inaccessible things.*

In talks i emphasize that tactile literacy is for STEM, orientation, careers in design. But it's also for itself — discovery and creation. Blind people often miss out on the joy of casual drawing and i need that to be over.

Can’t praise @Paraclimblondon & @AnousheHusain & @CastleClimbing enough. This group welcomes all, with a delightful and breezy can-do attitude. No awkwardness just a Let’s Climb approach. Love it. Here’s my blind daughter @poppylevison in action 🙌

Just got told by a stranger that watching a YouTube video would cure my blindness! Happy last day of #DisabilityPrideMonth 🤦‍♀️