[HN Gopher] Database of 750 companies building for people with d...
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Database of 750 companies building for people with disabilities
Author : ohjeez
Score : 77 points
Date : 2025-02-11 19:01 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (data.perkins.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (data.perkins.org)
| y-curious wrote:
| The main website works, but your link is timing out for me. Looks
| like HN users hugged it to death :/
|
| Glad to see that so many of us are interested in creating a
| better life for people with disabilities, though.
| ohjeez wrote:
| The happiest reason for a hug!
| jt2190 wrote:
| I'm getting a hug of death...
|
| It's The Howe Innovation Center at the Perkins School for the
| Blind's database.
| DrillShopper wrote:
| Resources like this are going to be invaluable in the future as
| the Trump DoJ eventually works to get rid of the ADA. If that is
| anything like their focus on DEI (which already includes
| accessibility for the disabled) then they're going to kill as
| many of these companies as they can with litigation.
| wing-_-nuts wrote:
| It's been a little startling just how fast companies rolled
| back their DEI initiatives when trump was elected. It really
| paints a picture of just who all was actually committed to it,
| and who was paying lip service.
|
| It makes me wonder about future accommodations as well. WFH has
| made my disability a 'non issue', but I can totally see a roll
| back of the ACA just making it that much harder to ask for it.
| mparnisari wrote:
| ERR_TIMED_OUT :(
| krikou wrote:
| Will check this out with a lot of interest when HN hugging will
| be over - we are building https://accessiblesurveys.com a survey
| tool for everyone. It tries to go beyond web accessibility
| standards (by including Sign language, Easyread versions or read
| aloud into forms).
|
| Not sure we are on the Perkins Database yet !
| qrush wrote:
| Perkins is an amazing institution here in Watertown, and as a
| result we have a higher percentage of blind folks than most other
| communities nearby.
|
| A quick example of this: The city is in the middle of redesigning
| our main square. We're lucky to have engaged Jeff Speck who's
| known for his work on Walkable Cities - he was able to, for the
| first time at the planning stage of a project - do a site walk
| with representatives from the blind community and Perkins to
| understand their perspective crossing streets and how they deal
| with infrastructure that isn't designed for them today. To
| literally hold their hand as they cross in front of ~7 lanes of
| traffic and understand their needs before a shovel hits the
| ground, will hopefully make that project a big success for our
| area.
| blackeyeblitzar wrote:
| Page doesn't load for me. But on a related note, I was amazed by
| this recent article from Neuralink:
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| https://neuralink.com/blog/a-year-of-telepathy/
| dang wrote:
| Thanks! I put this submission in the SCP*:
|
| _A Year of Telepathy_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43019352
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| * SCP = Second Chance Pool, explained at
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
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